Word: mph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TODAY'S SPEED limit of 55 translates into an unenforced speed limit of about 65 miles per hour. Of course, there will always be the 75 year-old women who--barely able to see over the steering wheel--will drive 50 mph in the left lane and, oblivious to the glare of your brights and the honk of your horn, refuse to let you pass. And there will always be the guys in souped-up Chevy the right lane going 80 and to whom you yell "jeez, what an asshole"--who will break the speed limit no matter what...
Most of all, however, a 65 mph speed limit would translate into an unwritten 75 limit without beefed-up enforcement measures. Yet for a lot less money than that would cost, the government can keep the unofficial speed limit at 65 by leaving the official limit where...
...orthe story of Red Dog Desloge's theft of a policecar? I remember the absolutely sinful delight ofzooming down Memorial Drive at midnight in earlyJune, finished for the year and free beyondbelief, astride my BSA 5000 motorcycle withPantaleoni and Eric Nelson on their bikes rightalongside of me at 60 mph...
Bloom's fastball travels at a crisp 85 mph. He can move it in or out on batters. When they prepare themselves for that, he'll fool them with a changeup. His curve was his best pitch in high school, but he never threw a no-hitter there...
...temperature was in the upper thirties, and the wind gusted steadily at 20 mph. It's been said that records were made to be broken. Not on days like that...