Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wiring, Ressler says, it was easier to incorporate Continental's "personalizing" features. With a turn of the ignition key, 24 different features-from seat and steering-wheel positions to interior temperature to choice of CDs-automatically adjust themselves to a motorist's preferences. The driver can even adjust ride suspension (firm, normal, plush) and steering effort (low, normal, high...
...that city's machines were regarded as handsome and powerful but basically dumb brutes. Today the buzz words in the Motor City are "smart cars," vehicles that literally think for themselves, diagnose their own problems and compensate for their drivers' frailties and failures, while ensuring a safer, more comfortable ride. A few smart-car features are already available on higher-priced vehicles, and Detroit intends to raise the IQ of many models even further in the next few years...
Bring on the chamber pots and powdered wigs! Don't be turned off by a dry title announcing a seemingly dry period of history. "The Madness of King George" is a wild ride in a staid carriage. Virtually identical to British playwright Alan Bennett's very successful original stage play, Nicholas Hynter's film is not only great entertainment, but quality cinema...
...didn't meet the quota, you'd have to goand ride the T before meetings to meet extrapeople," Cloutier says. "[The leadership] would bedisappointed in you for not meeting thequota...God was disappointed, too. There was a lotof motivation out of guilt...
...exactly like an earthquake, escalating in force from 3 to 7 on the Japanese version of the Richter scale. The willing victim is supposed to learn the tricks of quake survival: turn off the stove, open the door and hide under the table. Thousands of brave souls take the ride...