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  • After being largely shunned during the recession, high-riding SUVs and workhorse pickups are regaining favor as U.S. consumers grow more confident and fuel prices remain below the $4 a gallon level that triggered a shift away from larger vehicles.

    Americans Embrace SUVs Again Mike Ramsey 2011

  • It is based on the same chassis as the Mazda3 compact car, so it isn't so high-riding.

    Is a Turbo Too Much Car for an 18-Year-Old? 2010

  • The high-riding drys of 1929 may have been immune to sarcasm; they may not even have recognized it.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • By now we were playing dodgem cars with our bodies, slipping between the few high-riding elderly SUVs the Gas Wars had left on the road to hide from the suddenly animated horde of screen zombies.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • From his early days as a stand up comedian sleeping only 3 hours a night, juggling his day job and family while pounding the pavement as an actor, to his high-riding success on the hit television series, In Living Color to his highly-rated sitcom, My Wife & Kids, Wayans always did what he needed to in order to reach his career goals.

    Jeff Rivera: Damon Wayans on His New Book, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez and more ... Jeff Rivera 2010

  • I am hoping that now, the high-riding Christopher Nolan will help give the great Satoshi Kon an even larger due.

    RIP, Satoshi Kon: Will 'Inception' director speak now for 'PAPRIKA's' dreamy magic? 2010

  • The high-riding drys of 1929 may have been immune to sarcasm; they may not even have recognized it.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference for just before lunch on a slow news day and accuse his high-riding opponent, a pig farmer, of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.

    Does McCain Agree Or Disagree With Surrogates Questioning Obama's American-Ness? 2009

  • New data released last week by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration confirm what experts have been saying: the mismatch between heavy, high-riding sport utility vehicles and cars is deadly.

    Riding High 2008

  • By the release of polls in early October, the high-riding Conservatives had lost the lead earned in Quebec to both BQ and the Liberals in Quebec.

    Kriston Capps: Quebec Says Non to Arts Funding Cuts, Stephen Harper 2008

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