Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rodding used to be a pretty straightforward hobby. Once you'd mastered manifolds and camshafts, all you had to worry about was how to get the money for your engine parts and the grease off your hands. Then in 1981, Detroit, pressed to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency, started putting something new in their cars: computers. Suddenly, anyone who wanted to fine- tune an engine had to have a degree in data processing...
...superchips represent the merger of two quintessentially American pastimes: car customizing and computer hacking. When the first "engine management" chips debuted, some bright young computer types broke the coding and discovered that the tuning devices supplied by the manufacturers were designed for average drivers using low-octane fuel and left considerable room for improvement. With some minor adjustments, the processors that control engine timing and gear shifting could be reprogrammed for speed demons burning high-test to increase horsepower anywhere from...
...Environment President proposed an energy policy that didn't call for alternative fuels, or mandatory conservation or anything so sensible, but for more exploration to fuel our consumption. Our environment president who promised that there would be zero loss of wetlands decided to redefine what a wetland was so he could open 33 percent of them to developers...
...fact, the Macs there are awesome, powerful machines. The problem is they lack software--any software at all. It's like having a Ferrari with no fuel--useless...
These distances, of course, would be shortened more by inevitable advances in rocket technology as nuclear pulse rockets, which have been studied recently by the British Astronomical Society. Tippler describes these as, "roughly speaking, rockets which have hydrogen bombs dropped out the rear instead of chemical fuel...