Word: montana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name of research, the Toyota Camry hits 90 m.p.h. coming out of Great Falls on Interstate 15. Every other state in America puts a number on a sign to tell you exactly how fast you can go. Montana leaves you some leeway. You can drive whatever speed seems "reasonable and prudent" during daylight hours, depending on conditions...
They hate you for this in Montana, especially if you're from out of state. You blow through like it's the Wild West and ruin a perfectly good thing for people with the sense to keep the speedometer at, say, 88. But they don't hate it so much that they're ready to give up the right...
...first quarter in the Bucknell game didn't change any minds, either. Rich Linden looked like the second coming of Joe Montana with his 10 for 11 passing and two touchdowns in the first quarter...
Things may be getting a little too exciting out in the field. Two weeks ago, FBI agents thwarted Montana ranchers who were going after a T. rex skeleton with a tractor, presumably to remove it from federal land and sell it on the open market. And the public's hunger for fossils isn't limited to dinosaurs. Wyatt recently brokered the sale, for $2,400, of some bits of fossilized Cro-Magnon man advertised over his fossilnet.com Website--a sale that was condemned by anthropologists...
...announced more than $1 billion in welfare-to-work grants to states, stuffed four appearances into a day's swing through New Hampshire, and paid a call on his next-door neighbor, the British embassy, to sign its condolence book for Princess Diana. He also managed a hike in Montana's Glacier National Park to highlight a talk about global warming--or was that just the heat he was feeling as the yearlong Democratic campaign-finance scandal moved squarely...