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Word: motor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first surprise in Bristol is the Woodstock-on-wheels scene. Race fans converge from hundreds of miles away, arriving in motor homes as early as Thursday for parties, concerts, qualifying rounds and a junior-circuit Saturday race called the Busch Series. The local newspaper estimates that race fans will drop nearly $70 million into local pockets, and the money starts flowing at a Friday-night fund raiser for local children's charities. About 300 people have come to eyeball their racing heroes and bid on auction items like hats, uniforms and a Jeff Gordon jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

There's even a gated community called the Front Runners Club, which charges $500 per motor-home parking space. It's in this section that I find two black guys and tell them they must have taken a wrong turn, because racing is a white man's sport. Cloyd Nightingale, 46, turns to his friend Johnny Hill, 52, and they bust out laughing. "It's a white man's sport," Nightingale repeats to his friend. They're both truck drivers from Memphis, Tenn., and big race fans. "The flags don't bother us," says Hill. "It's not like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...thing is that what we really need is better data on what is happening and why," Hemenway said, "Anytime someone dies in a motor vehicle accident, we have lots of information on it, and this is not true in gun fatality. In the motor vehicle area, there are a lot of evaluation studies...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the wake of Littleton, Co., School of Public Health Publishes Youth Violence Study | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...thing is that what we really need is better data on what is happening and why," Hemenway said, "Anytime someone dies in a motor vehicle accident, we have lots of information on it, and this is not true in gun fatality. In the motor vehicle area, there are a lot of evaluation studies...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PREDICTING WHY KIDS CARRY GUNS | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...resident of Cambridge reported to CPD that while driving his motor vehicle down Brookline Street, near Franklin Street, he thought he heard gunshots and seconds later, his rear window was shattered...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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