Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn't no A student," explains Reggie. For the Ford family, it was a shining moment. They are poor. Reggie's mother is disabled from a car accident, his father from a stroke. Reggie was the first member of his family to go to college...
...replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that my husband left in the car for a week...
...most of us in the U.S., secret police and high-speed car chases are just the stuff of movies. But not to TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth Banta. They're sometimes a real part of the job of covering a bloc of nations not always known for their hospitality to the press. During one trip to Prague to attend a dissident conference, Banta and his translator were met at their hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made...
...working parents, professional women justifiably suspect that some bosses now categorize their female employees into two classes: mothers and achievers. "The idea is really offensive," declares Maryellen Cattani, a partner in a San Francisco law firm, whose Volvo carries her daughter's child seat in the back and a car phone in the front...
...could count on daily deliveries of fresh flowers. And repair shops could often get same-day emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...