Word: towing
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KIDDIE TRAVELERS Many hotels are now tempting business travelers with teddy bears and water slides--for their kids. Because business trips that include a child are often extended to a family weekend, kids in tow are a financial boon to hotels, and the competition for these tiny travelers is fierce. The Milwaukee, Wis., Hilton is adding a $40 million water theme park. Holiday Inns offer kid suites with bunk beds and Sony PlayStations, and the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver gives kids a taste of what their parents do with a "junior-executive" program...
...offering assistance to the plain-clothes officers on Storrow Drive who helped a family with a flat tire off of the road. Waited until the tow truck arrived and the situation was under control...
...1870s, Poland's most beloved actress, Maryna Zalezowska, abandons the stage and sets off, with a small entourage of admirers in tow, to found a vaguely utopian community in Southern California. No one understands why the acclaimed diva has decided on this strange mission, and she chooses not to enlighten them: "I don't owe anyone an explanation." The experiment, set up on 47 acres near the village of Anaheim, soon convinces the 14 emigres involved that successful farming and the contemplative life are incompatible. Leaving her husband behind to settle the debts, Zalezowska goes to San Francisco, polishes...
...impact upon the community. Next to these, a mocked-up slot machine stands as a model of what has brokered the reservation's transformation. As I read one of the panels, the whitest man I have ever seen, complete with massive gut, Boston accent and wife in tow, passes in front of me, headed for the slot machine. He looks around nervously and surreptitiously removes his wallet from his back pocket. He opens it and takes out a $1 bill, which he repeatedly attempts to feed into the machine. Looking back at his wife, he seems highly disappointed. "Helen, there...
Most immigrants to the United States come with dreams and families in tow. But Leslie Chang's mother arrived with dreams and little else as an 18 year-old orphan. She was forced to leave three younger siblings behind in Taiwan...