Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes the shoe pinches the other foot. New York Governor Mario Cuomo was almost an hour late for a lunch with TIME's editors because his car was caught in Manhattan traffic. His aides could do little other than telephone from the vehicle. Car phones are especially popular in Los Angeles, where many of TIME's ad-sales executives have installed them. Says Los Angeles Division Manager Steve Seabolt: "When you call and say, 'I'm on the freeway,' people know just what you mean...
...when he must fly, so that he can arrive at one of New York City's airports in time for flights that depart by 7 a.m., before runways clog. That strategy allowed him to arrive in Los Angeles three hours before a meeting in Palm Springs. He rented a car and hit the crowded freeways. He missed the meeting by two hours...
...Bridget and Tom Hotchkiss of Evanston, Ill., who returned in July from a slow-moving car trip to the Maryland shore with their sons Tommy, 6, and Patrick, 3, vow never to do it again. Says Bridget: "Ever since we got home, the boys have been playing a new game. They get out all their big trucks and all their cars. I hear them saying, 'Let's play Traffic...
...same day in 1980 that Vartan Gregorian heard on his car radio that he had not been chosen president of the University of Pennsylvania, he resigned as provost of the institution. Some speculate that he was passed over for the job because he was a history professor with few proven administrative skills, particularly in the area of fundraising...
Preceding Bush to Los Angeles, Bentsen inspected evidence of gang violence--guns, knives and a bullet-riddled car--which he said had increased during the Reagan administration. Bentsen said Bush had led the war against drugs as vice president and "blew it badly...