Word: motor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered me a lift on his motorcycle between states somewhere, on the way to Motor City...
...there have been 559 deaths. Of those hurt or killed, 46% were under 16, and almost half of these were younger than twelve. Citing these figures, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is asking for an end to models for riders under twelve. "Children lack the strength, motor skills and perception to operate ATVs," says Nick Marchica, head of the commission's ATV task force...
Kevin Johnson, 19, of Medford, the alleged driver of the car that hit Daniels, was arrested soon after the accident and charged with drunk driving, larceny of a motor vehicle, and leaving the scene of an accident, according to the Herald...
...University's announcement on October 3 included plans to sell $160 million worth of investments in 8 corporations including Exxon. The other seven--Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell, the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Co., Texaco, Mobil Oil, Phelps Dodge, and Schlumberger, Inc.--retain links to South Africa. Harvard's endowment still includes approximately $367 million worth of stocks and bonds in companies with South African operations...
...with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number 9, 1933, which was never built but which launched a thousand period spaceships into the popular epic of the future...