Word: subways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night in September 1946, I climbed out of the subway at Mass...
Retailing for about $119, the sleekly designed Razor is large enough for only one foot, and its relatively small wheels give a rough ride over potholes. Consequently, it is favored by teens and others who scoot for amusement, or for short runs to the subway. "The Razor is a fashion statement," says James Yu, who owns Basic Wheels in lower Manhattan. Serious scooter commuters with deep pockets favor the Xootr, whose Street model retails for $389. "Generally, these are for the guys over 40," says Yu. "They have wider wheels for a smoother ride and are sturdier...
...USAirways is continuously plagued by performance complaints and customer satisfaction troubles," Donnelly says. "Now people watching the merger talks are wondering if such a mammoth airline could maintain any trappings of a service industry - or if it would quickly deteriorate into the customer service equivalent of high-altitude subway trains...
...feel bad. It's not like Boston has underachieved. What else can be expected from a town whose subway system shuts down at night and takes you to a fake "Broadway" when it's running, a town whose one major sporting event, the Boston Marathon, takes place largely outside of Boston, a town that's basically a very distant suburb of New York...
...good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway map. Want it?" So right there, on the 6:24 to Huntington, we engaged in the Palm ritual known as "beaming"--using our infrared ports to swap programs wirelessly. We both got so excited about beaming with a stranger that we made e-business cards and beamed those too. We were beaming...