Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perky and lightweight, the Suzuki Samurai four-wheel-drive vehicle has become a trendy runabout in the U.S. Last week, though, Consumer Reports magazine said it will give the Samurai a rating of "not acceptable" in its July issue, the first such verdict it has rendered in a decade. The magazine's publisher, Consumers Union, conducted emergency-handling tests in which the two latest Samurai models tended to tip over at speeds of about 40 m.p.h. when the driver made sharp turns...
...Memorial Day weekend the invaders descended with a vengeance. Each day some 250 ATVs gathered on a stretch of the Black River near Centerville, a wide-open area of gravel bars and shallow water. The weekend warriors jousted at one another with their three- and four-wheel vehicles, running up and down the riverbed with abandon. As some ATV riders sat chugging beer on the bank, cohorts roared past at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing other vehicles. Music blasted from portable radios and car stereos, commingling with the whoops of riders and the growl of unmuffled engines. The air stank...
...addition, about 28 other states, including Maine and Wisconsin, have laws regulating the vehicles. Several bills now pending in Congress would restrict the sale of ATVs or provide refunds to customers who have purchased the three- wheel versions. Hundreds of product-liability cases and class actions have been brought against manufacturers. James Lacy, general counsel of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, says there have been 998 ATV-related deaths since the beginning...
While graduate students are clearly integral cogs in Harvard's undergraduate education wheel, the question remains whether Harvard is giving these teaching fellows enough guidance and training in return. Academic graduate schools focus on producing good scholars and educators, but both the undergraduates who attend sections and outside observers are concerned that Harvard is failing in the latter goal; Harvard may not be teaching graduate students how to teach...
...sides. The church hierarchy, charging that its mediation offer had been betrayed, bitterly denounced the use of force as a step that "does not serve the interests of society." Walesa grew more and more disillusioned. "It's as if the authorities are trying to poke their finger into the wheel of history," he declared. "Really, I am beyond fear at this point. They can kill me, but they can't overcome me." The electrician, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983, vowed that "I will be the last to leave" the shipyard if the police stage...