Word: wheeling
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...headlights pierced the darkness. A silver BMW with Duvalier behind the wheel approached the runway. Beside him sat his dazzling wife Michele. Later, the couple unapologetically explained their tardiness: they had decided at the last minute to throw a midnight champagne party at the presidential palace to bid farewell to their closest friends...
...attracted the most attention was a new one: Hyundai (rhymes with Sunday). Hyundai is the first South Korean company to export cars to the U.S. At the Houston show and at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Hyundai last week unveiled its new Excel, a front-wheel-drive subcompact with an enticing base price of $4,995. The company is launching Excel with a $25 million advertising campaign and confidently predicts that it will sell 100,000 vehicles in the U.S. this year. That is not a modest mission: no foreign importer has ever come close...
...might be inappropriate for the state to force citizens to act in their own welfare, but it is not inappropriate to compel them to respect the welfare of others. The seatbelt law advances more than personal safety; it advances public safety. When you get behind the wheel, you take not only your own life into your hands, but also the lives of countless others...
...clang. You take off your jacket and shoes and give them to a guard to inspect. After walking through a metal detector, you are patted down by the guard--who even checks your mouth. Then you put your shoes back on and wait for a steel-barred door to wheel open...
Later, as the youthful President headed back toward Managua, he stopped at a roadside restaurant, where he stripped down to a black T shirt and ate a lunch of rice, tortillas, chicken, steak and beer. Afterward he climbed behind the wheel of his Toyota, with a radiotelephone next to the gearshift and a rifle under the seat, and settled in for the drive back to the capital city. For the next 90 minutes, Ortega, occasionally taking his hands from the wheel to make a point, gave an unusually informal interview to TIME...