Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team has changed very few faces from a squad that struggled to win less than half of its games last year. Rookie John Stephens' combination of power and speed is expected to give a mediocre running game a big threat, but without an effective offensive line, don't expect too much...
...grim list of annihilation on Europe's roads. The U.S. rate: 2.6 per 10,000 vehicles. Italy reduced the limit after a dire weekend last month, when road fatalities totaled 95. According to a poll by the daily Corriere della Sera of Milan, two-thirds of Italians favor the speed cutbacks...
Excessive speed and alcohol are the major contributing factors to road accidents in Europe. In France and Italy many drivers drink wine with their meals at franchised rest stops, then happily hit the road. All too often they hit whatever is on it as well...
...anomaly in Europe is West Germany, whose freeways have no speed limits. Partly because of laws requiring seat-belt use in front and back, and because of mandatory driving-school instruction, the fatality rate is remarkably low: 2.4 per 10,000 vehicles last year, the best result since...
...road accidents is appallingly high and is expected to top 2 million for the first time this year. Says Otto Schily, a member of the environmentalist Green Party: "It's not only our compassion and mourning over the thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands injured that make a speed limit imperative. It's simple economic sense too." Unlike some of its hell-driving citizenry, though, the Bonn government refuses to put its foot down -- on imposing a speed limit, that...