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...until daylight. So we drove the car the rest of the distance to Montreal. When we arrived at the border patrol, some guy who spoke broken English asked to see our passports. Of course, we did not have any, nor did we have any registration for this broken-down car. Like the overpayed, underqualified civil service worker he was, the border patrolman let us go. So we were finally in Canada. As we approached Montreal, we started to see words that sort of looked like English, but not exactly...
With 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter and Harvard up 14-0, Yale's only weapon, tall junior tailback Keith Price, looked ready to jump-start the Eli's broken-down wishbone. He tore up the massive hole in the left side and drove up. Price pumped his long, lean legs, while Harvard junior James Ellis did what he's done all season: played catch-up and won. He clipped Price's knees and the junior stumbled onto the four yard line...
...Rock was just the kind of maverick that GM's new president, Jack Smith, was looking for last spring to join his team of bureaucracy busters. Rock's daunting assignment was to revive the company's most broken-down division: Oldsmobile. The nameplate, founded in 1897, was once renowned for powerful roadsters equipped with big V-8s like the Rocket 88. But the modern Oldsmobile suffered from an enervating loss of identity and fell disastrously in annual sales from 1 million cars in 1986 to less than 400,000 currently. Olds tried to entice younger buyers with the ad slogan...
...wants to make the fall campaign in part a referendum on Specter's memorably merciless questioning of Hill, joins Illinois Senate hopeful Carol Moseley Braun at the top of a growing list of women who are riding the perception that women will prove to be natural reformers of a broken-down system that has kept them at arms' length. Daughter of an 11-term Congressman, Yeakel did not run a shoestring campaign; she spent about $200,000 of her own money...
...When you have broken-down, dysfunctionalfamilies, you're going to have dysfunctionalcommunities," said Hardy, who is Black. "I camehere tonight to speak for those who cannot speakfor themselves...