Word: rams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until mid-July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g. for the larger vans. But the new vans can carry only...
...nation's recession-racked industrial heartland. West Virginia, still leading the U.S. in joblessness with an unemployment rate of 15.1%, faced a projected fiscal 1983 deficit of $81.4 million as recently as last January. But thanks to the unflagging efforts of Democratic Governor John D. Rockefeller IV to ram through a $90 million package of spending cuts, the state managed to end the year with a small surplus of $12.4 million...
...That ram avis never appeared. Early on Charles Dickens had expressed his skepticism about spirits: "I have never yet observed them to talk anything but nonsense." Not long afterward, Novelist Samuel Butler decided that "if ever a spirit-form takes to coming near me, I shall not be content with trying to grasp it, but. in the interest of science, I will shoot it." Exposes began to play the vaudeville circuit: Magician Harry Houdini showed audiences that the mysteries of spontaneously moving objects were no more than sleight of hand and, sometimes, foot. The Fox sisters, one of them...
...second half opened, the Crimson kept Ram goalie Deborah Robson as busy as the U.S. Marines, shelling her with a constant barrage of shots on goal. A stellar defensive effort kept the Crimson off the scoreboard, though, until junior Trina Burnham smacked one home with 23 minutes left...
Only stellar teamwork--fired up mostly by the impressive stickwork of newly inserted link Michelle Ippolito--allowed the Crimson to drive down the field with just over a minute left. In front of the Ram goal stood a wide-open Clifton, who timed her shot perfectly with Ippolito's crossing pass to sew up the Crimson victory...