Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew members were going to save their station and perhaps themselves, they would have to get moving fast. Though the thrusters on Mir were powerless to make the sweeping maneuver necessary to orient the solar panels, the thrusters on the Soyuz might not be. Like a pickup truck pushing a tractor trailer, the little lifeboat just might be able to nudge the mammoth Mir far enough for its panels to catch a shaft of sunlight...
...offset the higher expenditures, insurers are boosting the premiums for liability coverage on sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks, the New York Times reported last week. Previously, policyholders would pay roughly the same premium for liability protection whether they owned an ordinary sedan or a two-ton pickup. Car owners buy liability coverage as protection against loss claims from someone else as a result of an accident. Farmers Insurance Group, the nation's third largest insurer, has already lifted premiums as much as 10% in Pennsylvania, and it may eventually seek hikes in all of the 30 states it covers...
...centerpiece of the museum is the Walk Through Computer 2000, a two-story working Pentium computer with a giant keyboard, trackball and monitor. It's an eerie experience to actually maneuver through a computer like the one you have in your dorm room, down to the pickup-truck sized 3Com card inside...
www.annalive.com This tacky ode to Anna Nicole Smith offers dating tips (but no geriatric pickup lines) and a personal "cool" list (No. 2: "Norway and My Norwegian Fans...
Simmons motioned for a study to consider the use of school-bus monitors to enforce proper student behavior. Included in the study, at the request of committee member Alice L. Turkel, will be an analysis of bus routes and student pickup and dropoff needs...