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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check it because it was becoming too hot for me to keep my foot on the gas pedal. In the process of negotiating the bus to the right lane of the highway and finding a shoulder suitable to pull over to, I increased my speed to 50 miles per hour. Then the bus began to lose power, and its speed fell back to 35 miles per hour. I knew there was a problem with the bus's engine at that point because of the loss of power; besides, it wasn't the first time a Harvard Shuttle has given...
...would consumers, of course. The new regulations would increase the amount of crude oil needed to make gasoline and thus boost costs for refiners. Thomas estimates the additional cost to be $450 million a year, or 1/2 cent per gal. at the gas pump. But oil companies say the burden would be more like $2 billion. The second proposal would require automakers to enlarge the charcoal canisters that are placed inside gas tanks to reduce the emission of fumes. Thomas says this modification would add only $19 to the sticker price of a typical car, but automakers argue that...
...based Humane Society, charges that some owners have tried to increase their dogs' natural aggressiveness by keeping them tied up with collars of baling wire or running them on treadmills until they are exhausted. The pit bull's jaws -- which can exert as much force as 1,800 lbs. per sq. in. -- are strengthened by swinging the dog on a rope, its teeth clamped to a tire. This, she says, makes the animal a "lethal weapon. They hang on until their prey is dead." Such techniques, says Franklin Loew, dean of the Tufts University veterinary school, turn the dogs into...
...banks generally offer 24-hour customer service, but less often for free. According to the Bank Administration Institute, an industry trade group, by year's end 63% of banks with ATMs are likely to impose charges for the use of their money machines. Some charges are hefty: 75 cents per transaction at Chase Lincoln Bank in Rochester for using another bank's ATMs, or $1.50 at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank for using a nationwide ATM system...
...fact, the U.S. divorce rate, which climbed sharply in the late 1960s and '70s, declined in the early 1980s and by last year was back to its 1975 rate. The number of divorces per 1,000 Americans peaked at 5.3 in 1981; it was 5 in 1985. Although the actual number of divorces each year tripled between 1962 and 1981 to a high of 1.2 million, this too began dropping in 1982. In 1985 there were 1,187,000 divorces...