Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generates a powerful sideways or cornering force at the front axle. The rear tires, however, have to wait until the car has actually started its turn before they begin to generate a corresponding force at the rear axle. That is why a car with two-wheel steering fishtails during lane changes, the back end is trying to catch up to the front. In extreme cases, or under slippery conditions, the rear of the car may fishtail out of control...
...Harvard men's hockey team knows it lost Allen Bourbeau and Lane MacDonald--last year's two top scorers--to the Olympic team this year. The skeptics don't have to remind them...
Chandler is starting at center, and should provide what Harvard was lacking in the lane last season...
...Crimson is so bad that it is 5-0 and sitting alone atop the ECAC. There are no big names on the team. Dickie McEvoy, last year's leading ECAC goalie, has graduated. Lane MacDonald, the ECAC's second-leading scorer, is playing for the U.S. Olympic Team...
From Washington to New York City, new cars join the flow, upscale Volvos and BMWs. Turning off to the New Jersey Turnpike, the road becomes a delta, flattening, spreading out, careening and jostling forward at 55 m.p.h. The trucks are shunted off to a side lane and traveling along, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, they look like . . . yes! . . . a train! Remember trains? Surely trains were more sensible than this, a 20th century folly, this stampede of steel roaring toward the Lincoln Tunnel...