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• n  a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

• Today only two American passenger ships operate from the Atlantic Coast, and next month they will show the Stars and Stripes there for the last time.
• The 40-passenger coach weighs only 16 tons, v.
• He tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread.

• rider

News & Articles

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• Boat passenger dies after Miss. River accident
  VENICE, La. (AP) - A passenger has died after a boating accident in Plaquemines Parish. The Coast Guard says the accident happened Monday between two flat boats on the Mississippi River near Pilottown. Coast Guard officials say helicopters airlifted two passengers and brought them to the LSU Medical Center. CPR was performed on 1 passenger, but the other passenger died en route to the hospital ...
  June 11, 2013 - KATC 3 Lafayette
• Passenger curses cops, gets driver arrested in Waterford
  As Benjamin Boston Jonas, 34, drove past police conducting a traffic stop, his passenger screamed obscenities out the window. Police stopped the pair and saw signs that Jonas had been drinking.
  June 11, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Passenger traffic jumps 20 percent at St. Pete-Clearwater Airport
  Passenger traffic at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport rose 28 percent in May over the same
  June 10, 2013 - Bay News 9 Tampa Bay

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in CNN International
  When it comes to our economic policies, John McCain has been right next to George Bush. He's been sitting there in the passenger seat ready to take over every step of the way,Obama said in Sarasota, Florida.
• Frank Lautenberg in CNN
  This report makes clear that the Bush administration is cutting corners and failing to put passenger safety first,Lautenberg said. "The FAA is taking too many chances and ignoring too many red flags."
• Steve Fossett in Guardian Unlimited
  I haven't signed up to go into space,Fossett told the AP this year. "I really wouldn't want to go unless I get to be the pilot. I'm not a passenger type of person."