Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever wonder what happens when a brawny 6,000-lb. sport-utility vehicle collides with a typical 3,000-lb. sedan? Apparently, an insurance-company actuary hears it. Some big insurers are about to make it more costly to cover big vehicles than small ones. That's a break with the past. The reason? With record numbers of large vehicles like the Ford Expedition and the Chevy Suburban on the road, insurance companies are finding that drivers of the behemoths cause a disproportionate amount of harm to other cars and drivers, resulting in bigger liability payouts...
...offset the higher expenditures, insurers are boosting the premiums for liability coverage on sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks, the New York Times reported last week. Previously, policyholders would pay roughly the same premium for liability protection whether they owned an ordinary sedan or a two-ton pickup. Car owners buy liability coverage as protection against loss claims from someone else as a result of an accident. Farmers Insurance Group, the nation's third largest insurer, has already lifted premiums as much as 10% in Pennsylvania, and it may eventually seek hikes in all of the 30 states it covers...
...express road before it entered the tunnel at 12:25 a.m. on Aug. 31. Two off-duty chauffeurs standing near the tunnel entrance heard the roar of the motor as the Mercedes downshifted and accelerated. Directly in front of the speeding vehicle, they said, was a dark-colored sedan moving at normal speed. (The speed limit in the tunnel is 30 m.p.h.) They saw the Mercedes swerve into the left lane in an attempt to pass the car. Once the two vehicles entered the tunnel, these witnesses lost sight of them. But they immediately heard a loud crash followed...
Harvard announced two weeks ago that its endowment has soared to $11 billion. Now students are asking what--with yearly tuition, room and board hovering just above the price of a small Merceds Benz sedan--benefits they might see from this wind-fall...
Judicial sources told TIME they are examining what appears to be a fragment of the sedan's side mirror. It was found at the scene a considerable distance behind the wreckage, which suggests that the car might have made hard contact with something just before it spun out of control. Investigators wonder if that something was the handlebar of a paparazzo's motorcycle. All the same, insists Goksin Sipahiouglu, head of the Sipa photo agency, it would have been pointless for the photographers to catch the Mercedes or pull alongside it to take pictures. "A moving photo...