Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sunny afternoon last November, Walter Krug was cruising along in his 1988 four-door Chevy pickup truck on I-20 near Stanton, Texas, when suddenly another pickup blew a tire, veered into Krug's lane and broadsided him. The violent impact ruptured the gas tank of Krug's truck, spewing fuel that exploded into a fireball. Unable to free himself, Krug, 37, was burned to death. His family puts the blame on the truck's design. "Krug would have survived the crash if not for the fire. But there shouldn't have been a fire," says Mick McBee, the attorney...
...Ford Pinto all over again, only worse," claims Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the CAS, referring to the 1970s-era compact car whose allegedly flawed gas-tank design led to the death of 27 motorists...
...structural questions for even longer, and Clinton's aides expect its conclusions will carry special weight. Clinton helped found and was once chairman of the group, a collection of centrist Democrats whose views the President-elect has often echoed. The council's thoughts -- and those of its think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute -- will be presented to Clinton later this week, and may offer the best window into understanding how he will proceed from here...
...slept over at Dave's frat once last year and went with class with him in the morning. The women had complicated layers of makeup (9 a.m. is early, but one has to look good) and the men wore shorts and tank tops branded with their Greek letters (9 a.m. is cold, but one has to show full muscleage...
...where all the shit went down 350 years ago"--and I think Puritans and Emerson and then...then I see Canaday. Then the Science Center, which I'm just sure Cotton Mather would not have approved. It's hard to live a simple life of Samurai parties and tank tops on a campus that collects buildings like art--seeking a diversity of classical, romantic and abstract. Our history is too deep, our endowment too rich and our student body too neurotic for a single stereotype, let alone full-fledged identity...