Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, a spread of the California revolt might compel Congress to get into the regulatory act. "If California takes off," says a congressional aide, "auto insurance could become a significant national issue." In that case, insurers could find that Washington politicians have suddenly become itchy to take the wheel...
Dean E. Shapiro '91 says that he initially thought of his character. Peron's husband, a military dictator, as a device needed only for plot purposes. As the rehearsal process continued, however, he realized that his character gradually developed through the play. "I saw him as a third wheel to move the plot along," says Shapiro of his character, but "he definitely grew...
...sort of guy who would roll up his sleeves, look under the hood and fix it himself. Coming of age in Bloomfield, N.J., in the early 1950s, Stempel toiled during the summer as a garage mechanic. After joining GM as an engineer in 1958, he designed a front-wheel-drive transmission for the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Stempel's success with the front-wheel drive, a radical departure that later became a standard feature, accelerated his movement up the corporate ladder...
...television's top-rated game show and home to America's sexiest woman of letters, Vanna White. Now Wheel of Fortune has inspired the genre's most futuristic home game. A new device from Mattel enables viewers to play along with the nightly syndicated show. The unit, when aimed at the TV set, picks up an encoded signal that activates a miniature computer. For each word puzzle, the player can "spin" a wheel to accumulate prize money, choose letters and try to guess the hidden phrase. The TV players' guesses also show up automatically on the home unit...
...elaborate metaphors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda and effectively conjures up images of a land and people still bound by magic and ancient gods. Her metaphors are imaginative and often poetic. And the characters are at times fantastical, ranging from professional embalmers who travel around in wheel-chairs to silent Indians who disappear into the jungle at the blink...