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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things are slow. Liz impresses me yet again: "The light on Mass. Ave. and Everett goes 'don't walk' eleven times. Then it stops and turns green." Encouraged by the friendly, laid-back atmosphere characteristic of the escort, a passenger in the back jumps in, "Lights are regulated on purpose by businesses or gasoline monopolies. For example, in my town WalMart has a special light in front of the store. It's red when all the other lights are green. They found out that in one out of 100 possible chances, you will remember you need something and will just...

Author: By Ian Z. Pervil, | Title: A Perfect Escort | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Residents must walk to Central Square to findlarge chain stores or supermarkets. The fewbusinesses in Area Four are small, ranging fromthe Latino bodegas to Izzy's Restaurant and SubShop...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: A Changing Neighborhood | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

...really need to walk through Area Four tosee the other side of Area Four, the kids that dogo to school," she adds...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: A Changing Neighborhood | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

...pushing these instruments, Britain's highest paid executive. The Tokyo team, says a former Barings manager there, "was a loose group having a really exciting time. We'd laugh if someone had had only an hour of sleep a night. There were days when you'd see someone walk in looking like death, then they'd go into the men's room and come out bouncing around like a new man." Barings in Tokyo was the place to be. "There was much more freedom and a lot less compliance," says a former Barings analyst. That kind of volatility, however, flustered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicholas Leeson: GOING FOR BROKE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...when you say, 'I've made a mistake. I've got to get out of here.' He didn't have the courage-or the experience-to go to the boss and admit failure and ask how to get out of it." She adds: "These kids are just learning to walk, and suddenly they are put in charge of too much. They are still in nappies. They don't know what they don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicholas Leeson: GOING FOR BROKE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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