The van-pool driver was a woman named Janice Moss, who works as a property manager in Cumberland, in a two-mile-long ring of office buildings called Circle 75.
"There were still so many Vietnam veterans who were feeling maligned, underappreciated and misunderstood," said "CBS News Sunday Morning" correspondent Nancy Giles, who played the endearing motor pool driver Pvt.
Nikki Schrager, a 67-year-old sculptor, hopped in the gray Acura beneath the freeway near Lake Merritt and quickly violated the first unwritten rule of casual car pooling: the driver always controls the radio.
The transcript levels of these genes were higher in a pool of "tester" cDNAs (beads-only injection into the host) than those in a pool of "driver" cDNAs (beads plus venom injection).
She said the number of cellphones in use had increased, too, enlarging the pool of drivers who may use them.
The internet has changed all that, with office-workers now linking up with a much wider pool of drivers.
He claims that the company removed him from its pool of drivers earlier this year, after he exposed a loophole which allowed individuals to register and drive uninsured.
Mr. Dyer, who was a partner in a transportation company in the 1970's, said he remembered how the pool of drivers started to "dry up as the economy got better and better".
One scruffy soldier wearing the uniform favored by the Northern Alliance -- a pakol, the woolen hat with round, flat crown, as well as a patterned sweater with a scarf and vest -- was assigned to the pool of drivers for Mr. Rumsfeld's visit.
Edward G. Rogoff, a professor of management at Baruch College who has studied the taxi industry, said that it had increasingly become divided between a small group of wealthy medallion owners and a vast pool of drivers who occupied one of the lower positions in the city's economy.
