Word: drives
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...Cars and trucks would have to get 43 miles per gallon on average by 2016, which is far higher than the 35 miles per gallon by 2020 target currently approved by Congress in the Energy Act of 2007. Such a leap would require sweeping changes in the vehicles American drive...
...Kenyi can't really shoot threes, but his line drive jumper looks good. Harvard 25, Yale...
...Ukraine has been hit harder than most by the financial crisis. The metal and chemical industries that drive the country's economy have slashed production, unemployment is on the rise - according to the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), over 10% of Ukrainians have lost their jobs since the start of the crisis - and the hryvnia has plummeted, shedding over a third of its value against the dollar since last summer...
...cruel and obnoxious as the comment was, it was a reasonable expectation. Of the 6,000 residents of Attica, nearly two-thirds are prisoners, most from troubled neighborhoods in Martin's hometown of New York City, about an eight-hour drive south. Like so many other states over the past three decades, as the nation's prison population has exploded from 307,000 to 1.6 million, New York has come to see incarceration as a major source of employment. The corrections department is the state's largest agency, employing more than 31,000 people at 70 institutions...
...lawmakers, his command that they fix the problem was the stick. At one point, he joked about Whitehouse's allusion during the breakout session to Thelma and Louise, a movie that ends with the protagonists dying in a blaze of glory. "If you actually saw the movie, they did drive over the cliff," he said, to laughter. "So just want to be clear, that's not our intention here...