Word: locks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower rates have been a long time coming, given the powerful trends that have helped insurers to powerful profits. Start with safer cars: most vehicles now have air bags and anti-lock brakes. Autos are harder to steal too--newer models have security systems that disable the engine when you take the key out. Stiffened penalties have curbed drunk driving. And baby boomers have moved into the demographic sweet spot for cautious driving. Motorists ages 40 to 59 have a lower rate of traffic deaths than any other group...
Should he have been? Even a Kosovo hawk like John McCain complained that "most of the pork spending in this bill comes straight out of the Social Security trust fund," and arch-conservative Phil Gramm moaned that GOPers "say we want to lock up the money from Social Security, and then we sit idly by and watch it be spent." But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that Clinton asked for the money for the troops, and there's no way he was going to be seen sending this check back. "He probably doesn't consider this version...
...separate incident, a Cambridge resident was arrested for fighting with a Medford resident over a parking space. An argument ensued and the driver arrested took a chain with a lock on it and attempted to strike the other driver...
...read their e-mail," says Bruce Cohen, a Reno, Nev., father of two. "Legally, I'm responsible for them until they're 18." Yet many others believe that invading an e-mail file is no different from opening a pen-and-paper diary that your daughter keeps under lock and key in a dresser drawer. A lot of parents--not to mention kids--find that a breach of parent-child trust...
...dusty-tan foothills of the Rockies, just southwest of Denver. It was once a small prairie town of gold rushers and traders, where the biggest scare was getting hit by a prairie dog. Now it's a stretched finger of the big city, with aspiring families who don't lock their doors, enclaves with names like Coventry and Raccoon Creek and Bel Flower, scrubland turned into golf courses, houses than run anywhere from $75,000 to $5 million or so. There's an arch over a hallway in the high school engraved with a motto: "The finest kids in America...