Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the capital of cabin fever was the capital. Monday was the day the government was to reopen. But when the day arrived, the only open shop was the Supreme Court, with Justice David Souter catching a lift to work after failing to dig his Volkswagen Rabbit out of a drift. John Sturdivant, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, speculated, "It's kind of God's revenge on the craziness of Washington...
Across the street from Blank's van yesterday were a Citroen car and a Volkswagen, decorated with sunflowers and mermaids and owned by Maine resident Bill Stevenson, decorated with sunflowers and mermaids...
...prosecution's case, both then and now, begins with a traffic violation. Just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1981, Faulkner stopped a Volkswagen going the wrong way on a one-way street. The driver was William Cook, Abu-Jamal's brother. The prosecution contends that when Faulkner tried to handcuff Cook, Abu-Jamal, who was moonlighting in the vicinity as a taxi driver, jumped from his cab and ran to his brother's defense. By this account, Abu-Jamal shot Faulkner in the back. When the policeman returned fire, hitting Abu-Jamal in the chest, the journalist straddled...
...nothing--zero." But even as he says that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week. "We're big in Canada and we're strong in the U.S. Other than that we really have no position." The current Chrysler management might well ask who exactly...
...quote from Dr. Lester Greenspoon's Maribuana Reconsidered, "I knew there was no Volkswagen on the ceiling and there was no Sandeman salamander man in the flame" It's kinda like the admission that, finally, there is no God. How lucky for us that the "Harvard University Press Classic" is now back in print...