Word: auto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clever, albeit socially irresponsible, lyricist; and the Insane Clown Posse is just plain malicious and dumb. But all three acts do share some core attributes: they make jagged, angry music, full of violent imagery and snide, snotty humor; and they perform songs that grind and groan like auto plants closing down...
...recent article in The Nation about the resurgent student movement began by noting that a meeting of campus organizers at Stanford bore "no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed...
...WHEELS In the market for a new car? You might want to consult www.insure.com's Auto Theft Risk Finder for a list of makes and models stolen most often in your state. Or if you're planning a trip, you can see where your car might be most wanted. The site offers statistics on scores of metro areas (Miami had the worst record in 1997, with 1 of every 38 cars swiped). Buy a car with a high-theft risk where you live, and you could face a bigger insurance bill...
...sitting in front of the Sony Trinitron every Sunday in a neon Earnhardt or Gordon T shirt and a NAPA auto-parts hat. But I now check to see who wins each week, and on the highway, I find myself looking for my openings, waiting for just the right moment to jam it in there. Maybe that's how it begins, and before long you're going around repeating the line Bill France says he stole from Hemingway: "There are only three sports. Bullfighting, mountain climbing and car racing. All the rest are just games...
...auto industry, where being biggest or fastest has always mattered most, the startling new benchmark for bragging rights is being greenest. That's what Ford Motor Co. chief executive Jacques Nasser seemed to be suggesting last week when he announced that beginning this fall, the company's popular F series pickup trucks will pollute the air no more than its cars do today. Just a year ago, Ford said it was cleaning up its sport-utility vehicles' emissions. Now Nasser says the 2000 model trucks will meet Environmental Protection Agency regulations mandated for the year 2004--without costing consumers...