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...accident Oct. 16, 1998, on the way to a homecoming football game outside her hometown of Mexia, Texas. A friend of Taylor's mother was driving that day, and as the tread on the left-rear Firestone ATX tire allegedly peeled off like a banana, the Ford Explorer SUV veered left and rolled over...
...weekend getaways, NHTSA warned that an additional 1.4 million Firestone tires - manufactured primarily at the Decatur, Ill., plant, where most of the recalled tires were made - may be even more susceptible to the same kind of deadly tread separation. Most of the tires were sold as replacements for some Ford, Chevy and Nissan SUVs, though many were probably scrapped a long time...
...male is - who else? - whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...
...healthy rallies on all three indexes: 122 points for the Dow, 102 for NASDAQ, 15 for the S&P. Friday followed with more good stuff: the Dow ended up 24 and the NASDAQ was ahead by 28. Good days to help cap off a very good month (except for Ford), with the Dow picking up 7 percent in August and NASDAQ gaining 11 percent and finally breaking into positive territory for the year...
...Gridiron dinner in Washington in the eighties, Bob Dole looked up at the dais and saw Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon sitting beside one another...