Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seat belts unequivocally save lives and unequivocally save money," says Jennifer Peck, campaign director of the Vote Yes on Question 2 Committee. "And seat belt laws make more people wear seat belts...
...Peck also points to a 1991 federal law which reduces federal highway construction funds for states without seat belt provisions. Under the law, Massachusetts would lose some $9 million in construction subsidies, Peck says...
...Peck says that the high cost of treating an unbuckled person injured in a car crash and the grim statistics of unbuckled fatalities make adopting the seat belt law "common sense...
...Peck wrote his The Road Less Traveled in 1978, and it is still racking up some $300,000 a year in royalties. It is an earnest and generally inoffensive advice book that begins with the admission that "life is difficult" and stipulates immediately that "without discipline we can solve nothing." Its astonishing appeal may not be that people actually read it and are elevated. Rather, it appears, they buy it to give to irritating friends. Making a present of The Road Less Traveled has become a socially acceptable way of saying, "Estelle, your insulation is beginning to char." Everyone knows...
...author, who has written several other self-help best sellers, now says that Road bores him, "but that's where the money is." Mildly cynical wisecracks of this kind seem merely to assure believers that Peck is a regular guy, as do revelations that he smokes, and drinks fairly heavily. At 58 he is trying to scale back his incessant speaking engagements to about 25 a year, at $15,000 apiece. But the guru business, like the Mafia, is hard to retire from. He and his wife Lily generally suffer his adulators tolerantly, but they have been heard to refer...