Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interesting to consider: in an age in which we stress mass transit as the best alternative to environmentally destructive car exhaust, there are very few safeguards against widespread transportation paralysis...
...archdiocese, anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating more than $1 million a year each to programs for the poor...
...combatants are turning to even more exotic technologies. A small Denver company called Innovisions Research has introduced a line of Stealth attachments, which fasten to the front of an automobile and use microwave- absorbing materials like those in the Stealth bomber to reduce the car's visibility to police radar. The company claims that a speeding vehicle that would normally be detected from 4,000 ft. away may not show up in Smokey's gun until...
...looking for dirt on Sam Nunn. Oh, sure, he's accepted some modest honorariums from defense contractors, and Perry and Georgia are not hurting for military contracts, and there was also the time, when he was 26, that Nunn got loaded at a party and sideswiped a car and pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and paid a $100 fine. That one made the papers again last week when Tower partisans were dredging up anything they could find "on" Nunn. "Well, that is something, isn't it?" says a senior White House aide, who will speak only...
...editor of the Mirror, a tabloid published every other week behind the rock walls and accordion-wire fences of the maximum-security Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater. The punishment is likely to come not from the warden or the guards but from any of the approximately 1,200 convicted car thieves, drug dealers, armed robbers, kidnapers, rapists, child abusers and murderers who may take issue with his editorial policy...