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...unexpected surprise that it came this early [in the season]," Sugrue said. "My goal was to qualify for the nationals in January after getting a few meets under my belt. It was a shock, but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth...
...bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion, from "hydrogen bombs" thrown "with murderous intentions." Tyson also said, in a gentle lisp so becoming and contradictory, "Look at me. I'm just a boy, and I got this belt on my waist...
Twenty-six states have passed mandatory seat-belt laws, but in two of them voters this year decided they would like the liberty to unlatch. Late tallies disclosed last week that on Election Day Nebraska repealed its seat-belt law by as few as 720 votes, out of more than 500,000 cast. Massachusetts voters also unsnapped their seat-belt requirement, by a 53%-to-47% vote...
...drivers' revolt won despite expensive pro-seat-belt campaigns supported by automakers, who face a federal mandate to install air bags in cars if two- thirds of the population is not required to buckle up by 1989. Opponents had argued that seat-belt laws interfered with personal liberty. But freedom has its price: with accident claims certain to rise, insurance companies in both states are already threatening hikes in their auto premiums...
...ingredients for some old-time demagoguery in this fall's election. The economic strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...