Word: minivan
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...Buying a minivan with a VCR and television in the back Too many parents unthinkingly invest in a car outfitted with a newfangled "entertainment" system, then stick their kids in the back and drive happily to their destination, undisturbed by the usual squawked demands for soda and high-pitched infighting over whose foot is creeping over the imaginary boundary drawn down the center of the back seat. When the trip is over, the now drooling kids are ushered into a cabin/beach house where a Playstation is warming up. Years later, when the kids are 22 and serving time for armed...
...Help the kids help you. Beihl designates a backseat co-pilot to read maps, play those books on tape and retrieve siblings' dropped toys and snacks from the minivan floor. And here's a tip I dreamed up myself. Since dialing and driving don't mix, teach your kids to use the cell phone. That way they can call Amtrak to reserve a sleeper for your next trip...
...talked to Bush about his college years several times while he was running for President. Early in his campaign, I asked him what it was that bothered him so much about Yale. We were sitting in the back of a minivan on an hour-long drive between stops in Iowa. "I'm not sure how to describe it," Bush said. "I love my friends. One of the reasons why I'm doing well politically is I'm blessed with a lot of people, a lot of friends, who want to help me. I mean, I've got friends all over...
...idea a little absurd that someone who counts the Queen of England as a distant relation and whose family is the epitome of the blue blood upper class could feel discriminated against at Yale. But there you have it. "As a matter of fact," Bush continued in the minivan, "I still believe that just because somebody's got an Ivy League title by their name doesn't make them smarter than anybody else...
...enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version of its monster Durango truck that would get only 18 m.p.g.--a hybrid muscle...