Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...versions of the S-800, a small, four-cylinder, four-carburetor model that resembles the Austin-Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive from a four-cylinder Honda Formula II racer that won all ten of its Grand Prix starts this year...
...important thing-to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could drive without cracking up." This summer he found an all too tangible answer: his $11,000 Ferrari, whining along at a reported 110 m.p.h. on a limit-free Italian autostrada, crunched into a tiny Fiat, killing a Florentine businessman. Although the actor's driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence of recklessness to justify an indictment for manslaughter. Penalty for conviction: one to five years, though a suspended sentence is the rule...
...only to see it overwhelmingly voted down by the machinists. Then Congress tentatively got into the act; Oregon's maverick Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who had headed a presidential panel that recommended one rejected settlement, led the way in introducing legislation that might end the strike by legal fiat. Union President Roy Siemiller, insisting that he could not engage in collective bargaining while a congressional club was being held over his head, merely used the proposed legislation as an excuse for walking away from negotiations. Last week, after it was all over, Siemiller claimed that the strike would have...
...kicked out. You see them walking along, smoking their cigarettes and not looking anyone in the face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic meal commemorating the KPU's decisive defeat...
Apart from the price tag, the bill as passed contains the fiat that the Pentagon must build "as soon as practicable" two new nuclear-powered guided-missile frigates similar to the Navy's Bainbridge. The measure also provided twice as much money as the Defense Department had requested in order to accelerate development of the so-called advanced manned strategic aircraft, a new long-range heavy bomber...