Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pacheco of Cerritos Suzuki in Los Angeles County explains the popularity of the miniature vehicles. "In the 1960s everyone had a toy, like hot rods, but lower speed limits now prohibit those." Today's jeeps, like the earlier dragsters, can be souped up with a variety of gizmos, including "lift kits" (a set of springs that raises the chassis higher off the ground), running boards to help passengers climb into the elevated cabs, fog lights, protective body molding, and tubular steel grates to protect the grille from imaginary sagebrush...
Yohe threw for 237 yards this weekend to lift his seasonal total to 1200. He moved from off the charts to number seven in the Crimson's list of top 10 season passing performances. Three more days like Dartmouth and he will easily surpass the 1575 yards Larry Brown threw...
...that glasnost allows us to be open about these things, I must tell you that space travel is not the great adventure it's supposed to be. Lift-off on Sept. 29 was excruciating. My pulse raced to 200 beats a minute, and I ran a temperature. Incredibly, my partner Dryoma seems to have slept through the launch...
...office equipment. Europe's proudest achievement, perhaps, is its new prominence in aerospace. Airbus, the aircraft consortium backed by the governments of France, Britain, West Germany and Spain, has emerged as a major competitor to America's Boeing in the passenger-jet market. Last month Europe confirmed its successful lift-off in the space market by hoisting two communications satellites into orbit atop an Ariane rocket. While the U.S. space shuttle remains grounded, Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation European Space Agency, has in eight years put a total of 19 satellites in space and signed an additional...
Today's contest marks the second of a tough four-game road stretch for the Big Green, which is riding a 4-0 triumph over New Hampshire Wednesday in Durham. Harvard, meanwhile, got a big lift from Tuesday's home victory over Boston University...