Word: ruggedized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The other big change in demographics is the jump in women purchasers. According to estimates by Christopher Cedergren, a California auto analyst, five years ago the number of female buyers was negligible; now they are 24% of the market. Their attraction to the rugged vehicles ranges from the romantic to...
Lie has all the requisite Shepard themes: the lack of communication between people, the fallibility of memory, the breakdown of the traditional American family, the insatiable restlessness and violence of the American way of life, and the souring of the American myth of rugged individualism, as personified in the hollow...
Meanwhile, the toll rises. ATVs, which critics contend can flip over on rugged terrain, account for an estimated 20 deaths a month. Manufacturers, which include Honda and Yamaha, maintain that ATVs are safe if ridden properly.
At this time of year, the Cabo de Hornos Hotel in Punta Arenas (pop. 100,000) is ordinarily filled with tourists who spend their days browsing in the local tax-free shops or mounting expeditions into the rugged, mountainous countryside just out of town. But the 120 mostly American scientists...
Wing Lanny Thorndike and forward Scott Roberts take over for Jon Israel and Ray LaRaja as co-captains, and will lead the Crimson through a rugged schedule which should prepare the squad for the New England Championships at UMass in late October.