Word: troy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, like electrons to a cathode, a raft of smaller companies and entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead...
...anything like the dynamic energy, the sheer stylistic force with which John Badham drove Fever. Finally, the electric charge that Travolta jolted into that film is missing here. If he keeps on this way, he will turn out to be not the Brando of the '80s but the Troy Donahue of the decade...
...summer approaches, gas prices are changing vacation habits. The American Automobile Association says requests for travel planning are off 12.9% this year. "Gas prices make driving to Florida impossible," says Paul Polsky, a pharmacist in Troy, Mich. "We'll spend vacation in the state...
...list of Crimson victors in the meet reads something like a Homeric catalogue of the conquerors at Troy. The thinclads made a clean sweep in the field events, suffering a lone casualty in the high jump...
Another Yardling, Eric "Monster" Schuler, trailed Northeastern's Troy Billings for 13 laps in the 5000-meter race, then calmly left him in the dust to win in 14:25.4, a new meet record...