"Commuting is probably the single most nonproductive thing we do," he said.

"Commuting is bad," Mr. Flake said in an interview this week.

Meditation and relaxation Commuting is seldom pleasant.

"Commuting is really tough," he said.

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Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCAs) represent a relatively new categorization of rural areas based on research at the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Washington.

With the parents commuting Robert was often on his own as the little man of the house.

Probably a third of them are workers commuting to jobs, she said.

By moving out and commuting in you get far more home for your money.

I commuted for about three months and finally we just moved to get the kids in school.

We are looking for someone within commuting distance of the park.

After two years commuting, he decided to move to London.

You may be asked to: Commute back and forth to the study site.

Though never in the same class, they were always together at lunch and commuting time.

It's a wonderful thing to see as I'm commuting to work.

At the end of the 80's, she began commuting across the Atlantic.

She took courses at night, commuting an hour and a half each way.

In any case, he said, most people use the transit system for more than just commuting.

The early part describes the problems of commuting from a home without a road.

Its the equivalent to commuting in a small car for 4 years.

Some commuted from the city; others sent their families to live there.

At various low points in our marriage, we had commuted together.

He does not sit in traffic commuting to an office park.

Finally his life sentence was commuted on May 20, 2009.

Such definitions are usually based on commuting between home and work.

He took the fall for the man who later commuted his sentence.

For years, "he commuted an hour and a half each way to his job."

But she has been commuting long enough to know the value of compromise.

Figure in at least an hour for commuting and it all adds to a long day.

All have to develop plans to reduce commuting by car.

His family never moved to Washington, so he commuted home most weekends.

The daily commute-- a scene familiar to many of us.

"Cedric, we could move closer to the college so you could commute-" He took her in his arms and kissed her.

Being forced outside of 200 miles would make the 'commute' for meetings uneconomical (too long by boat - too expensive by helicopter).

According to Transportation Alternatives, 10% of New York City's work force--approximately 65,000 humans--commute by bicycle.

'Not an Easy Commute' Jonathan L. Gaska, the district manager of Community Board 14 in the Rockaways, where no buses at all ran during the strike, agreed.

The word 'commuter' was originally used for travellers paying a reduced or 'commuted' fare for an advance-purchase rail season ticket valid for a fixed number of days, weeks, or months, and 'commute' is a back formation therefrom, originally in the US.

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