Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave up a $500,000 annual income as an influential Washington lawyer ?an insider among insiders?to plead the cause of the poor and downtrodden in Washington's most frustrating Cabinet post, at a salary of $66,000. Yet he enjoys his official chauffeur-driven car, insists on flying cross-country first class, lives in a $182,000 house. And when he watches the Washington Redskins, he sits in the box beside Owner Edward Bennett Williams...
Giovanna is sitting in a car outside her father's villa in the Via dei Villini. She is eating a pizza. Suddenly a van appears and three masked men jump out, seize Giovanna and bundle her off before she has time to sing one note. The villains bring her to a hiding place not far from her home. The police, in search of Aldo Moro, ring the kidnapers' doorbell on two occasions. When no one answers they go away. A few days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout...
...schools. Among them are an impressive array of questionnaires accompanied by answer sheets. An example: a sheet showing three pictures of homes asks, "What's Wrong Here?" The sketches depict, among other things, open windows in the middle of winter, a running water faucet and one passenger in a car. For small kids, there are wall posters with cartoons showing what should be done to save: drive small cars, observe the 55-m.p.h. limit, keep the home heat below 70° and take showers rather than soaking in a tub full of hot water...
...case involved one James Coulter, an apprentice machine technician whose right side was paralyzed in a 1976 auto accident on the way home from a party in Foster City, Calif. Coulter, now 28, claims that the car slammed into a bridge abutment because its driver, a young woman, had consumed "extremely large quantities" of beer at the party. Although the court did not pass on the merits of Coulter's $1 million damage suit against the host, it overturned a lower court's ruling that the state's civil liability law applied only to bars, restaurants and liquor stores...
...talkativeness. Surrounded by a group of students asking him for comment on the Corporation's upcoming decision, Bok merely smiled a fixed smile and proceeded towards Massachusetts Hall, where more demonstrators blocked his entrance to the building. Smile undisturbed, he strolled across Mass Ave., where a University police car whisked him away over crowds who tried to block the car's exit. "It's just another day in the life of a university president" Bok quipped as the police guard shuffled him through the chanting crowd...