Word: exhausting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUSINESS: A drive to clamp down on auto exhaust...
...growl. The exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...
...city once called itself "the lungs of Philadelphia," but residents now say that the exhaust fumes from tour buses make the air unbreathable. Thanks to tax revenues from the casinos (more than 63% of the $130 million raised annually), local property owners are assessed less for public education than in most other parts of the state. But the school superintendent has been fighting for years with a casino over the purchase price of a parcel of land needed to replace a leaky 65-year-old high school...
...liter, four-cylinder model that uses more valves per cylinder (four instead of two) to provide greater zip. Mazda also focused on such fine points as the simplicity of the convertible top's operation, the feel of the gas pedal and shifter, and the sound of the car's exhaust. A Mazda engineer recorded some 200 exhaust "notes" before deciding on the right pitch for the Miata...
...Tamil farmers spread their harvest across the road and wait for the traffic. Cars, buses and trucks burst through the sheaves; the rubber meets the rice, and the grains are pinched free from their husks. The vehicles move on, and women, children and Indian crows drop down through the exhaust fumes to gather in their share...