Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...m.p.h. would be extremely difficult to enforce. Americans this year have bought more automobiles than ever - the majority of them still overpowered, low-mileage behemoths. A better solution could lie in the countertrend among the ecology and economy buffs toward lower-powered cars. In recognition of that trend, Ford Motor Co. last week opened a new $100 million plant in Lima, Ohio, to build four-cylinder engines, which have not been manufactured in the U.S. since the model A's and B's of the 1930s...
...transitory feeling but with a lasting release from stress. Individuals say they emerge from meditation refreshed and alert. As evidence, one of the pamphlets cites studies made at the University of Texas, UCLA, and Berkeley. Bar charts of the results show Transcendental Meditators were much better at perceptual and motor tasks, as well as learning and short-and long-term memory tests, than normal people. The benefits are corroborated by students, who make up half the beginners in Transcendental Meditation today in America...
...trials. On race day, a threatening sky did not reduce the throng that turned out to see wonders like Linda Vaughn, a busty blonde in gold lame, parade on behalf of a transmission manufacturer. The racing cars were billboards on wheels, plastered with ads for everything from beer to motor homes...
While Detroit's automakers search for ways to reduce the polluting gases produced by the internal-combustion engine, a company best known for its motorcycles may well have found the answer. Japan's Honda Motor Co. plans to begin exporting to the U.S. a 1,600-lb., four-seat car that will easily meet the 1975 emission standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...calorie-conscious cooking with helping him to keep slim. His old lumberjack's breakfast menu of eggs, flapjacks, beans, meat and a slab of cold dried fat back is only a memory. For spiritual replenishment, he periodically packs his wife and their three children into the family motor camper and escapes to the Canadian wilderness...