Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside a secret garage in the Jura Mountain town of Biel. If the team realizes its vision, the Swatchmobile will combine the crash resistance of a Mercedes with the spunkiness of the famous wristwatch. Plans call for the Swatchmobile to be 20% smaller than a typical subcompact, able to wheel into a parking space sideways, cost about $10,000 and reach 90 miles an hour. The car's designers hope it will travel at least 80 miles on a gallon of fuel, thanks to an engine one-tenth the weight of any existing engine with equal power. Models will...
Exact plans for Disney's America are in a state of evolution. At first they included a water adventure with Lewis and Clark through pristine America, a factory town with a high-speed ride around a vat of molten steel, a county fair with a 60-ft.-high Ferris wheel, a Civil War fort and simulated skirmishes, old trains, a working farm and a Victory field where kids could parachute from a plane and operate tanks. These concepts are being reworked, but Disney is secretive on just...
...Bennett book ought to be distributed, like an owner's manual, to new parents leaving the hospital. It is basic and corny in places, but as with everything else that got in the path of the baby boomers, it is necessary once again to reinvent the wheel...
Police also said Sullivan had broken into the Chevy Blazer. The car's door lock and steering wheel were damaged by Sullivan's break-in. Sullivan was carrying tools used for breaking into cars, police said...
...Nuland points out that for most of the elderly the villain is old age. Bodies wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...