Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Carolipa. Oh, how I would love to rank UNC number one. I adore the Tar Heels. I worship Dean Smith. Sam Perkins is great. James Worthy is better. And Michael Jordan is going to be the best freshman in the nation. But, like the bumper stickers should say. IF GOD IS A TAR HEEL, WHY HAS DEAN SMITH NEVER WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP...
October 31, 12:16 a.m.--Police arrested Judd J. Brooks of Boston for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Driving on Huntington Ave. near the Medical School, officers allegedly saw Brooks pull out of a gas station at a high speed, striking the attendant with the bumper of his car and crashing into another vehicle as he pulled onto the street. The police pursued Brooks on to Evans Way, where he struck another car, flattening two of his tires...
Whatever his policies, Scalise has consistently attracted quality soccer players to Cambridge and has established one of the top women's programs in the nation. This year's bumper crop of talented freshmen should assure Harvard's Ivy League ascendancy for at least the next three years...
...standards now in force require both front and rear bumpers to be able to tolerate a 5-m.p.h. thud without damage to the car body and with only minor dings in the bumper. Safety is not affected much one way or the other at such low speeds, but car owners say that the better bumpers lead to fewer, and smaller, repair bills. Insurance companies argue that as a result, collision coverage rates for drivers are as much as 20% lower than they would otherwise be. The NHTSA itself evaluated the cost effectiveness of its standard twice under the Carter Administration...
...safety agency denies that its bumper move constitutes buckling under to Detroit. But, concedes Associate Administrator Barry Felrice, "the timing is awful. No matter where we come out, we will be raked over the coals for being anti-consumer." Whatever action the NHTSA does decide upon, the auto industry will still not be able to retool completely for new and cheaper bumpers until at least the 1985-model year...