Word: tiring
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...Heating & Cooling, the team's corporate sponsor, felt it could afford a second driver. Since then, the road has been rough, even when Janet has had the chance to get out onto it. The Vollstedt team, lacking the big backing enjoyed by teams sponsored by giant oil and tire firms, has moved forward in fits and starts. The worst worry: continual mechanical problems in Guthrie's Vollstedt-designed...
...that is unique in Western democracy. In 30 years they never went into opposition, primarily because their only effective rival, the Communists, always seemed too drastic an alternative to most Italians. Thus Italy, reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "became a political unicycle without a spare tire. Denied the reinvigoration and change that periods in opposition allow, the Christian Democrats literally got stuck in power. As its leaders are fond of complaining, they became 'doomed to govern...
Campaigning with Reagan also meant hectic hours for National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian, who interviewed the candidate in a car driving through Shreveport, La., then boarded a plane that blew out a tire, and finally reached New York at 4 a.m. to deliver his Q. and A. with Reagan. In Washington, Dean Fischer covered the Ford side of this week's cover stories...
...that truckers' use of amphetamines has declined drastically in recent years. Ordinary drivers tend to be as evangelistic about the medium as oldtime gear jammers. "When I'm on the road these days," says New York Businessman Lawrence LeKashman, "I'd sooner leave the spare tire behind than my CB." Enthusiasts predict that CBs will some day be required equipment on all cars...
Recently Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith predicted that the U.R.W. would win a 41% wage-and-benefits increase over three years. If that happens, the brokerage firm calculates, tire prices will rise 6% this year and 3% in each of the next two years. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week approved a 6% increase in freight rates that truck lines had requested in anticipation of a fat Teamsters contract; the truckers are expected to ask for another 7% to 8% next year. The C.P.I, rose at an annual rate of only 2.4% in March, but nobody expects the rate...