Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a parent's worst nightmare: when his car hit an oncoming van, his daughter, three-year-old Veronica, pitched from her mother's arms into the windshield, suffering fatal head injuries. Last week the grieving father came before a Miami court, charged with vehicular homicide for failing to strap his child into a safety seat. The case against Rodriguez was so wrenching and his tale so sad that many potential jurors expressed outrage that he was even being put on trial...
...feverish and vomiting. So as the family drove home after a trip to the grocery store, her mother cradled the fretful toddler in her lap, hoping to soothe her. Rodriguez, 30, was traveling only 10 m.p.h. when he hit the van. Usually, cases of heedless driving and failure to strap in a child are treated as traffic violations...
...government is paying $210,000 to find out whether burping cows contribute to global warming. Researchers will strap monitors near the cud-chewing creatures' mouths to measure how much methane they emit. Flatulence is considered a comparatively minor source...
...hobo bag, which had not been manufactured since 1975, has been revived and is now one of the two top Gucci offerings in U.S. stores. The other is a roomy, bamboo-handle leather bag, created in 1957. The updated version, which is enlarged and comes with a leather shoulder strap, is offered in calfskin leather ($895) and crocodile...
...largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion at Expo '90, an international fair in Osaka. Showgoers queued up for a chance to park themselves in front of a huge wraparound screen, strap on a pair of battery-powered goggles and enter a startlingly realistic 3-D world...