Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Yale weekend was an adventure. With no bus ticket, I jumped on the Undergradute Council bus and sat on a fold-out seat next to the bus driver, strapped in by a two-piece harness, with my face about two inches from the enormous windshield. The next day, our team was heroic in the true sense of the word. Our men of Harvard came back from behind to win 22-21, and living vicariously through them, I rushed the field, driven in part by my blood-alcohol-level, but driven nonetheless. I was back on the same...
...their prosperity was built. Tauscher followed in his wake. A millionaire former stockbroker and businesswoman, she looked, at first glance, like a Rockefeller Republican. Her husband actually was a Republican. In 1996 Tauscher took on an incumbent Republican, attacked him for opposing abortion and gun control, and won a seat in Congress...
...girls, the '80s babysitter represented the teen ideal--boys, painted fingernails, high school, boys and BFF (Best Friends Forever). For boys, the '80s babysitter held the promise of adolescent back-seat gropings and the suburban equivalent to the Robert Palmer girl. Let the memories flow.FM
Most retro-bikes are seen with a basket, which can be attached to the front or the back. These include the small wicker model, the milk crate, the traditional metal grid and the snappable, apparently useless leather pouch which hides beneath and in back of the seat. Nothing may be carried in these baskets. The seat is either in black or tan leather and is most often eaten away at the edges by some sort of decades' old fungus. Handlebars must be upright in "cruising fashion," and the number of speeds may not exceed three. A "bell" is optional...
...think they were on top of the world, but just when the Republican National Committee had its best week in a year--winning two statehouses and a congressional seat--a potential revolt divided the party's ranks. What's it about? Money. A top official told TIME that the G.O.P. is more than $7 million in debt--more than half again what it claimed last week. Fund raising is lackluster, and party elders didn't like it when G.O.P. chairman JIM NICHOLSON directed $800,000 to radio ads in Staten Island, though the congressional candidate was never hurting. Nicholson...