Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very good, and that put a little pressure on us," said freshmen Roberta Hing, who won easily, 6-4, 6-3 as the netwomen's sixth seed. She later combined with sophomore Deanne Loonin to register a 10-5 pro-set victory over the Big Red's number two tandem...
...trucking industry. In addition to having to pay more at the pump beginning April 1, truckers found their highway-use taxes and registration fees raised, as of July 1984, from $240 a year to $1,600 for the largest rigs. As a palliative, Congress created rules to permit tandem-trailer trucks, some of them 40 tons in weight when loaded, unprecedented access to the interstate highway system and most of the nation's 260,000 miles of "primary" federally aided roads...
...provision, which went into effect last week, put the U.S. Government and a handful of states on a collision course. The state legislature of Connecticut, which has outlawed tandem trailers on all roads since 1949, voted to continue its ban, thus becoming the first state to defy the new law. New Jersey's Governor Thomas Kean is sued an order limiting the giant rigs to interstate highways and two other major roads and proscribing them from roads the new federal law had opened up. By week's end Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and South Carolina pointedly announced that...
Regardless of the size of the road, the rigs themselves may pose a safety hazard: critics say they are harder to control and more prone to jackknife than smaller trucks. Truck drivers assert, however, that tandem trailers, known in the industry as "double bottoms," are safer than smaller rigs because they have extra axles and better weight distribution. But there is little question that the larger rigs will batter the nation's interstate highway system, initiated in 1956 for trucks far less hefty than today...
...tandem with the Corps new emphasis on self-interest comes a change in the incentives volunteers are offered Ruppe's executive assistant. David Scotton, praised the program this week as a chance to gain marketable" international experience in a Third World country," and stressed that the Peace Corps has a job placement program for returned volunteers...