Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rosen engine design, announced last week, draws its power from two very different sources. The first is a high-powered turbine--a mini-jet engine if you will--that will keep your car purring along on the freeway with just a spit of gas every now and then. For quick acceleration and hill climbing, the turbine is linked to a flywheel, an energy-producing and energy-storing contraption that is at least as old as the first potter's wheel--a stone that had to be heavy enough to continue turning between kicks from someone's foot. Flywheels were...
...dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic on the freeway, in a store or at a concert. Some 20% of patients attempt suicide...
...LOUISIANA DELEGATION: Best Western Seven Seas Lodge; Hotel Circle. View of freeway. Price...
...Reform Party Convention, scheduled to begin this Sunday in Long Beach, California (one day before the Republican get-together down the freeway in San Diego), will not be so much a convocation as a coronation. It's likely to be as lively as an Electronic Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making...
...your friend, buddy or significant other is harassing you non-stop about Southern California: the beaches, the amusement parks, the stars! With visions of "Baywatch" rescues, squeaky-voiced rodents and starring roles dancing in your head, you embark for Los Angeles and plunge head-first into...its congested freeway system! The price for fame and fortune never did come cheap, and L.A. is no exception. Before you know it, you're shelling out beaucoup bucks for an exercise in the imaginary, doggedly following fictional rodents-turned-superstars around the park while assiduously crushing real-live ones under your feet, making...