Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company with violating minimum-wage provisions. The law under which the department acted was passed in 1942 to prevent the exploitation of children and sweatshop workers in city tenements. The women in Vermont prefer working at home, where they can be with their children and do not have to travel to a factory, especially in winter over icy roads. Finally, the Labor Department rescinded...
...machines, the day begins just before dawn, when much of Milwaukee's human population is still asleep. All night, orders have been flowing to the IBM from Allen-Bradley distributors in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Caracas, - Melbourne and 400 locations in the U.S. From the IBM, they travel silently across hidden cables to Department 260's own network of 29 smaller computers...
William Capobianco's one-man financial consulting firm in Eastchester, N.Y., would not exist without services such as CompuServe, Dow Jones and the Source. By plugging into these far-flung communication systems, Capobianco can advertise his company across the U.S., chat with clients, make travel plans and keep up with current affairs. Says he: "I couldn't survive without the networks...
...separate computer system links florists in New York with Candy-Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...
That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...