Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe I should develop some of these points more fully. Like the Firebird. Not only is it a cool car, but just check out the things he does with it. He's probably the best driver on television, and definitely the coolest. Every time I try to throw my Gremlin into a spin instead of doing a three-point turn it stalls. Rockford wouldn't be caught dead in a Gremlin...
...they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic. Government and consumers increasingly take on difference in costs passed on in taxes and higher-priced non-medical goods. For example, a Ford car in 1968 cost about $20 more because of employee health insurance. Last year, the car would have cost $150 more for those benefits. The relative invisibility of health care costs insulates the health industry from public pressures which might force it to operate more efficiently and responsively, and leaves...
...Communists are so much smarter than Thieu. If they want to take your car, they arrest you and take your home and car, then free you and give you back your home, so you are grateful. Under Thieu, they just took your car," Toai says...
President Bok stated in his letter that the way a university "addresses these questions and the answers that it gives are inescapably a part of the moral education that it imparts to its students." Last April, Bok chose to stride across the Yard and zoom away in a car to avoid talking to students without the protection of a podium. The "moral education" Bok gave to Harvard students then was to evade those with whom one disagrees. And his letter teaches students to rationalize denying the moral consequences of their actions...
Each biograph is enlivened by a macabre whimsy: a man is steamed alive "like a lobster" when his car wash malfunctions; children are fed meals of worms; decent folk fall victim to robbery, infidelity and bad genes. Spyker reports it all, creating a community from the disparate characters as well as a portrait of the narrator, an "outlander... struck more by bits of detail than the total sepia haze of the picture: by odd names or locutions, specific items and photographs that have survived, the price paid for caring...