Most of us take the subway at least 20 to 30 minutes each way if we commute into Manhattan.

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The Friedans had household help three or four days a week, which allowed Betty to travel for her research and to commute into the city.

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Though many residents commute into Manhattan, others work nearby, and the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in particular draws many medical professionals to live locally.

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New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has also expressed his concern, querying why any manager would continue to commute into the state if it would mean a higher tax rate.

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But the closure of a key bridge along a highway leading out of Caracas, what was once a half hour commute, has turned into a four-hour ordeal.

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He is able to refocus the time and energy it would take to commute and put it all into his contribution to his job, his team and his company.

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The new free online portal will offer up-to-the-minute TfL service information including TfL's journey planner and entertainment and news content useful for a commute to work or trip into town.

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Looser also plans to study whether our brains get overloaded in the presence of too many faces, which may yield insight into the effects of a crowded office not to mention the morning commute.

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They also navigated away from Oklahoma City so as not to clog roads at commute time, or to contribute to the chaos that would develop there if a tornado went into that heavily urbanized area.

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