Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...
...departure from Carter's commitment to nuclear power. The platform promises that "as alternative fuels become available in the future, we will retire nuclear plants in an orderly manner." On the third troublesome plank, the drafters brushed aside an attempt by Carter sup porters to soft-pedal the abortion issue. The platform now flatly opposes "any constitutional amendment" restricting the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. That could be the most divisive plank of all, particularly if Republican platform drafters follow Ronald Reagan's lead in endorsing just such an amendment...
...nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the exIts funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the experimental car unveiled by British Leyland last week does something much better than fly supersonic: driven at a steady 30 m.p.h., it gets 100 miles to the gallon. Push the pedal to 60 m.p.h., and BL's Energy Conservation Vehicle 2, or ECV, still gets a respectable 60 m.p.g...
Consumers continue buying heavily in the belief that, no matter what something costs today, it will be even more expensive tomorrow. Now the injection into the economy of new cold war defense spending, without any concomitant reduction in social expenditures, could be like hitting the gas pedal on a car already careering out of control down a hill. The last budgets that resembled this year's reach for both bullets and butter were President Johnson's Viet Nam-era spending programs, which unleashed the inflation that now plagues the nation...