Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When God speaks to Jim's wife, Tammy, He speaks not with fiery tongues, but from chrome exhaust pipes. Tammy compares life to driving a car up a hill. You got to stay on the right side of the road and the right side of life. No wonder the British have problems...
...system in reaching them. Indeed, Huntington argues, to the degree that a government must govern, it will always fall short of the absolutes: certainly it will never be able to erase the continuing suspicions about government power. This gap between expectations and performance (or, in Huntington's brushed-chrome lingo, between ideals and institutions, abbreviated as the "IvI gap") fuels our volatile periods of creedal passion. "The ideological challenge to American government thus comes not from abroad but from home, not from imported Marxist doctrines but from homegrown American idealism...
Seconds after takeoff on his first try with a hang glider, a sudden gust of wind caused Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...
...difference: the youthful-looking information systems manager views the program on a convenient monitor while he pounds out the miles on a motorized treadmill at the Xerox Corporate Fitness Center in Stamford, Conn. On his daily jog, White is surrounded by a $61,000 mechanical sculpture garden of chrome, leather and cable: stationary bicycles, cross-country skiing simulators, rowing machines, Nautilus weight stations and racks of dumbbells positioned around the spacious, brown-carpeted gym. Down a hallway hung with modern paintings are whirlpool baths and a sunning room studded with ultraviolet and infra-red lamps. Near by: offices...
...glass and steel machine ascended slowly to the second level, and on its polished chrome steps, it carried the Colonel...