The height and stiff frames of sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and vans are making them unusually deadly to people in other vehicles on the nation's roadways and caused about 2, 000 extra deaths in traffic accidents in 1996, federal regulators said here on Monday.
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The chassis is an extremely stiff frame of chrome-molybdenum steel tubes welded into a truss-like structure weighing approximately 125 pounds ( 57 kg ) . The light weight body ( approximately 80 pounds ( 36 kg ) ) is aerodynamically styled and fully encloses the underside of the car.
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Temperley feels that the early symphonies are the weakest works of this period, but he suggests that " few piano concertos between Beethoven and Brahms are as successful as Bennett's in embodying the Classical spirit, not in a stiff frame to deck with festoons of virtuosity, but in a living form capable of organic growth, and even of structural surprise ."