personal rapid transit

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noun

a short system of small, self-propelled, automated, rubber-tired vehicles that usually run on elevated concrete tracks and allow a passenger a limited selection of routes, as in an amusement park or at an airport. Abbreviation: PRT

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The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
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And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
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Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
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Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
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It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
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These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.
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The rapid spread of the revolt was not a whit less marvelous than its lack of method or cohesion.
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When the reserve transfers are completed checks in transit can no longer count as reserves.
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The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.
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Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
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