Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suite. In the spring, 10 people decide to live together and apply as a rooming group to live in the suite the next year. These people are predominantly seniors. The suite is not separated from the rest of the house, and a common television is located but an elevator ride away from the suite. The situation is exactly analogous to purchasing a television set with house committee money and then placing it in a single Currier room...
...uses videotape of the helmeted Dukakis in the turret of an M-1 tank, a ride the Democrat took last month in an attempt to show toughness on defense issues--but which critics said made him look silly...
...federal deposit insurance system should be revamped to ensure that it encourages prudent management at financial institutions. At the moment, regulators bail out mismanaged S and Ls and often turn them over to new owners who commit little or no capital of their own and who get a free ride to continue the institutions' speculative activity at no risk to themselves...
...silks and lacquerware in an air-conditioned arcade, an evening dining in spicy splendor along the Chao Phya River, and a night on Patpong, the most freewheeling bar strip in the world. Pleasure becomes business in a city that is both sedative and stimulant. At first light you can ride along the back canals around the Temple of the Dawn, where saffron-robed monks paddle from river house to river house collecting food; in the morning you can lose yourself amid the chapels, bejeweled Buddhas and murals of the 60-acre Grand Palace, in the midst of which, atop...
...bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe simplicity of Ko Phangan, an island free of electricity, where beachside huts go for as little as $1 a day. Travel from one idyll to the next is a tropical breeze: long-distance buses come with hostess service and in-ride movies, while even more expensive trains will whisk passengers across the country for less than...