25 years ago in reason."'There is no unemployment in Cuba,' our guide, Teresa, told us proudly. And it was easy to see why. Every hotel has elevator operators, even though most of the elevators are push-button (electronics) push-button - A roughly fingertip-sized plastic cover attached to a spring-loaded, normally-open switch, which, when pressed, closes the switch. Typical examples are the keys on a computer or calculator keyboard and mouse buttons. type. To make sure that patrons use them, the stairway doors are kept locked. (Too bad if there should be a fire!)" --Robert Poole Jr., "Inside Cuba Today" "Lobbies cluster around Capitol Hill like ants around an ant hill ant hill Noun a mound of soil built by ants around the entrance to their nest ant hill n → Ameisenhaufen m , scurrying scur·ry intr.v. scur·ried, scur·ry·ing, scur·ries 1. To go with light running steps; scamper. 2. To flurry or swirl about. n. pl. scur·ries 1. The act of scurrying. , buttonholing, importuning, occasionally giving testimony, always currying favor to preserve or augment their place in the sun if not their share of all those lovely federal spending goodies threatened of late by the budget-cutters' ax.... The durability of lobbies cannot seriously be questioned in this age of unlimited government. They are certain to outlast out·last tr.v. out·last·ed, out·last·ing, out·lasts To last longer than. outlast Verb to last longer than Verb 1. both the Reagan administration and the new 97th Congress." --William H. Peterson, "It's a Company Town" --October 1981 |
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