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  • America's car-oriented suburbs, the prevailing venue for middle-class life, are ill-suited to single-person households, especially those of the elderly.

    Roommate Not Wanted Daniel Akst 2012

  • He was in an orange jumpsuit, sitting in his single-person cell, reading a book—Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • He was in an orange jumpsuit, sitting in his single-person cell, reading a book—Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • I can understand overlooking the single-person indie devs, but it seems off to discount the "major" indies.

    Food For Thought SVGL 2009

  • Housing prices are collapsing in part because single-person households are replacing families with children.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Mr. Thomas was smoking a cigarette outside his single-person backpacking tent Monday afternoon.

    Protesters' Dilemma: Less Space to Occupy Andrew Grossman 2011

  • The Federal Aviation Administration chief suspended the air-traffic controller who nodded off while two jetliners landed at Washington's Reagan National Airport, even as lawmakers and labor union officials demanded an end to single-person staffing at any airport tower.

    FAA Suspends Air-Traffic Controller Who Dozed on Job Andy Pasztor 2011

  • The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the union that negotiates for controllers, for years has tried to persuade the agency to hire more controllers and eliminate single-person overnight staffing of towers at commercial airports.

    Turbulence Mounts at FAA Andy Pasztor 2011

  • The union representing the nation's nearly 20,000 air-traffic controllers criticized that policy of single-person staffing as "unsafe" and also called for an "urgent, comprehensive" nationwide study to improve the situation.

    FAA Suspends Air-Traffic Controller Who Dozed on Job Andy Pasztor 2011

  • The head of the agency last week said he was "personally outraged" by the tower controller's behavior, while other FAA officials began looking at the budget implications of eliminating single-person staffing at towers.

    Decisions by Pilots to Land Criticized Andy Pasztor 2011

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