Word: motor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crime 1997 1998 %Change Stranger Rape 0 0 0 Acquaintance Rape 3 5 67 Robbery 6 6 0 Aggravated Assault 17 21 24 Simple Assault 5 2 -60 Burglary 69 59 -14 Larceny Bicycle 226 158 -30 Larceny/All Other 648 512 -21 Motor Vehicle Theft 5 6 20 Vandalism 76 54 -29 Total Crime 1,310 1,037 -21 Source: Harvard Police Department
...before the Supreme Court over whether states may continue to sell, as many do, personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers derived from drivers? licenses. South Carolina is challenging, on the basis of states rights, a federal law that would stop the release of such motor vehicle information. Privacy watchdogs hope that the court?s decision, which is expected to come down next term, will also have something to say about individual rights -- and put a halt to the release of such information...
...infield, John Gregorian, 37, and four buddies from the Chicago Board of Trade light up $8 cigars in their rented 22-ft. Tioga Flyer. And Randy Holmes, 41, an ironworker from Orlando, Fla., climbs on top of his rickety $4,000 motor home and turns on his scanner to hear the chatter between drivers and crew chiefs. Holmes saved up for two months to come to the race with his stepfather, two sons and a nephew. He doesn't know it, but 75 yds. away in a somewhat more elaborate rig, Texaco CEO Peter Bijur is getting ready to root...
...concierge service is a California nuance," says Walter Czarnecki of Penske Motor Sports, which owns the speedway. The service is located in the vip motor-coach area, and when I arrive, super-stud driver Rusty Wallace is emerging from a massage. "I never thought I'd be getting a massage in the infield of a racetrack," he says. And just when you think it can get no fluffier, he sits down for a manicure...
...auto industry, where being biggest or fastest has always mattered most, the startling new benchmark for bragging rights is being greenest. That's what Ford Motor Co. chief executive Jacques Nasser seemed to be suggesting last week when he announced that beginning this fall, the company's popular F series pickup trucks will pollute the air no more than its cars do today. Just a year ago, Ford said it was cleaning up its sport-utility vehicles' emissions. Now Nasser says the 2000 model trucks will meet Environmental Protection Agency regulations mandated for the year 2004--without costing consumers...