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...California, pocket bikes are illegal on public roads, according to Rieboldt, because they are motor vehicles that require registration. But the department of motor vehicles will not register them because most do not pass safety regulations governing headlight height from the ground, taillights, brake lights, horns and so on. The California Highway Patrol has issued a statewide special alert about pocket bikes. Of course in some quarters, that will only add to the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pocket Bikes | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...even if The New York Times is a cosmopolitan sort of place, there’s no repressing the peanut urge. A Lee Bros. “I brake for boiled peanuts” bumper sticker sits on Sifton’s desk...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nuts about Nuts | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...ricin isn't especially good as a weapon of mass destruction. It's easy to make, using a recipe you can get off the Internet. It comes from the castor bean, which is used around the world in products ranging from laxatives to brake fluid to nylon, and also grows wild in the southwestern U.S., so there's no shortage of raw material. But unlike anthrax, ricin is tough to aerosolize and inhale; the easiest way to deliver a fatal dose is injection or ingestion, and you need a lot for the latter. Ricin is powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homegrown Terror | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...miles and have already had to replace the guts of a back door due to its locking up; the oil cooler due to oil leaking; the sway-bar linkage on both sides; the power-steering and crankcase hoses; the window regulator; the right/left front axles; and the front brake rotors. I have wasted many hours taking the car to several respected service shops, including the dealer. Anyone want to buy my Passat? It has only "minor" problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feedback: Driven Mad | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Gossip Guy partied like a state-school student with an “I brake for beer” flag on his pickup truck at the Harvard State University throw-down on Monday. To honor his two and a half hours of college life, Gossip Guy brings you busty lies, buff innuendos and sexually active rumors...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Gossip Guy | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

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