Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes it's the police who are at fault, he admits. In the early '70s, when clashes between demonstrators and police were at their height, Richardson saw a Cambridge police car trying to run over a student demonstrator on the grass between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses. The student fled into Winthrop with the cop in hot pursuit. Richardson pointed the officer in the wrong direction...
...stock policy for the year. Some protesters, dismayed by the Corporation's failure to announce its decision immediately, surrounded President Bok as he tried to make his way across the Yard at the end of the day, and watched as the University police whisked him away in a patrol car; others took up an around-the-clock vigil outside University Hall and vowed to stay there until a final decision came down...
Months passed without comment-or cash-from Chesselet. In February Horsley went to the waitress and demanded $15 for car expenses (15? a mile) and $17 for his time ($8.50 an hour, his minimum rate as a C.P.A.). Sue me, she replied. He did. The trial is set for July, and if Horsley wins, the courts will have added another rule to the complicated dating game...
Although the rebels had come on foot, many rode home aboard an estimated 350 vehicles stolen from Kolwezi residents. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, who visited northern Zambia last week, reported that the improbable parade looked like "the largest and best organized stolen-car ring in history: dozens of sparkling Peugeots and Fiats, sedans and pickups, careening along amid clouds of dust, blue-and-gold Zaïre license plates glinting in the sun. One overloaded car carried a man clinging to its hood. Occasionally a stolen truck passed by jammed with rebels, not in uniform but arrayed...
...research, development and administrative expenses of meeting Government regulations at GM came to $1,258,000,000 last year, or an average of $200 for every car and truck the company sold in the U.S. The work involved the equivalent of 23,700 employees. It included everything from putting in new production machinery to the cost of designing cars to meet federal pollution, safety, health, noise and other regulations. But it did not include installation of federally mandated parts, such as emissions-control systems and safety bumpers, on the cars. These costs also become part of the price the consumer...