Word: motors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upwards of $100,000 a year for print journalists, even more for the larger TV crews), partly because so much equipment must be imported; old Peking hands say that newcomers should plan to bring not only their own cars but also a year's supply of parts and motor oil. Nonetheless, a bureau in China is less expensive than in places such as Tokyo, Paris and London...
Leave it to California to take its own skateboard-that simple, sometimes dangerous and remarkably maneuverable device-and improve it. Improve it? Well make it part of the highway culture, anyway. With a 1¼-h.p. motor attached at the rear, a hand-held throttle that can act as a kind of brake and a 12-oz. gas tank, the new Motoboards, as they're called, can move a rider at up to 50 m.p.h. and cruise at 20 m.p.h. for about half an hour. They are already selling well both in the U.S. and abroad. "The beauty...
Speaking at the swearing in of his new registrar of motor vehicles, Gov. Ed King reaffirmed his campaign promise to raise the drinking age in Massachusetts...
King said that by making it illegal for teenage drivers to drink, accident rates should drop throughout the state. The new motor vehicles head. Cambridge resident Richard E. McLaughlin, is a staunch supporter of the higher drinking...
...Among those who pick it up: restaurants, retail shops, printers, electricians, florists, carpenters, security people and utility and telephone companies. Also advertising agencies and public relations firms, motor coach services, audiovisual equipment companies, duplicating and distribution services, auto rental and leasing, charter bus services and sightseeing tours, commercial and industrial equipment leasing, costume rentals and sales, court reporters and stenographers, entertainment booking and productions, exhibit design decorators, medical and first aid services, models, hostesses and talent services, photographers and, of course, hookers...