Word: gorton
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...rider forbidding the Department of Transportation to study fuel-economy increases. But this year, for the first time, the Senate is forcing a compromise to allow a National Academy of Sciences assessment of the issue. Ford and GM "have definitely seen the writing on the wall," says Senator Slade Gorton, a member of the subcommittee on transportation. "Consumers want cleaner, more efficient sport-utility vehicles...
...good tournament at the World Juniors and was used more in a checking role. He's always been thought of as an offensive guy, so some people might have gone just on his numbers," said Jeff Gorton, an aide to Bruins Assistant General Manager Mike O'Connell...
...confidently sent its chief, Jane Garvey, flying from Washington to Dallas during the key hour of midnight Greenwich Mean Time. The only surprising thing about the flight was that the FAA chief had to fly coach. Joining her were 36 passengers, including one brave TIME reporter, Washington Senator Slade Gorton and Janet Rhodes, 63, whose life's goal was to fly during midnight of the millennium. Rhodes booked the trip months in advance, had her flight canceled twice owing to lack of passengers and eventually got a ticket on the flight Garvey was taking, figuring American couldn't cancel that...