Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...
...failing to overrule the Governors of New York and New Jersey in their desire to prevent Gromyko from landing at Kennedy and Newark International Airports. Reagan opened the Unites States to heavy, and just, criticism. Besides the ethical issue of whether or not the United States is living up to its treaty responsibilities as the United Nations' host (it's not in this case), the decision to harass Gromyko makes for bad politics. It permits other countries, all too eager to find fault with Number One, conclude that the United States is taking unfair advantage of its position...
...human jack 'o'lanterns are here, dripping with the toxic waste of their native New Jersey. Forget the last 10 days of October. Halloween, in the form of the Princeton Tigers, has definitely arrived...
Chicago 6. New Jersey...
...this month, a former Princeton student filed a suit in a New Jersey federal court that focuses attention on Princeton's 90-year-old honor system. William Brennan III, the university's lawyer in the case, says that "the honor system is to Princeton what the Holy Trinity is to the Catholic Church." That may be true, but the issues raised by the student's suit suggest that Princeton's piety is misplaced...