Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
After cleverly engineering a string of 34 straw-poll victories throughout this year, Gramm hit a speed bump in Florida last Saturday at the single such contest he couldn't rig. His second-place showing (seven points behind Dole and only three ahead of Lamar Alexander) failed to meet his own hyped expectations and dents his overall strategy, which presumes his winning handily across the South. Now a Connally-size meltdown, while unlikely, cannot be ruled...
...11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished the Murrah building and destroyed scores of human lives required a basic understanding of chemistry, skill at bombmaking and some technical know-how to jury-rig a few key components that are not easy...
...goals of Title IX are to increase opportunity for female athletes and provide funding comparable to that received by men's teams. These goals have largely been achieved, despite the failure to acheive the strict 50/50 ratio. The attempt to jerry-rig this nominal goal will only close the doors to male and female athletes in the long...
...corruption within the government, by definition, reduces the effectiveness and legitimacy of that government. When politicians care more about lining their pockets or gaining power than protecting their constituents and the law, our quality of life will surely degenerate. When President Richard Nixon abandoned honesty and attempted to rig his chances of winning the presidency, he came closer than any man has ever come to staging a coup and subverting our democracy...