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...other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike is your Fatal Lover, and there's no way around that: if it weren't true, there would be no market...
...base rate at Singapore's Hotel Phoenix is about $160 a night, marketing director Low admits that she "is happy to let you stay for $87 a night." Many hotels are spicing up the discount deal with a slew of extras, from free clothes pressing to complimentary limousine transport and free breakfast. Hong Kong's Conrad Hotel, for instance, is offering a standard room, with all those freebies and more, starting at about $315 a night (that's down from nearly $900 in January). Both Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines are offering one free night...
Cambridge police squad cars are not generally used for arrest or transport as they are not equipped with partitions. Only in an emergency when the wagon is busy will a car bring someone to the station, and then an officer will also sit in the back...
MOSCOW: What?s a guy got to do to get his paycheck around here? Miners who haven?t received theirs for eight months believe blockading the country?s key transport routes might help, which they?ve been doing all week. But Boris Yeltsin today scolded the miners for being unreasonable: "The strikers are unwilling to hear cool-headed arguments or reasonable explanations and want to have their problems resolved at once and at any cost," said Yeltsin...
About 15 students showed up for the meeting in Currier House. Also present were Carl A. Tempesta, manager of facilities and passenger transport services, and Philip A. Bean, assistant to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...