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He and his wife had to pay off more than $400,000 in student loans after graduate school.
“If I had just gotten in the car and driven off with my wife and child at that exact moment, everything would have been fine,” he said.
A flight attendant came around with Champagne and water before take off.
While a prolonged stretch of pricey gas could renew interest in EVs, it also could further slow overall sales of all vehicles if cash-crunched consumers respond by putting off new purchases.
The heat lingered around 100 degrees, and while Young danced and sang, she began to visibly gag and retch before running off the stage and asking for a bucket.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.