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Sleepers have solid business advantages, starting with time saving. Says Double Eagle President Ray Miller: "If a load of West Coast produce has to be East in three days, not three weeks, a husband and wife team with a sleeper can do the job." Lone drivers must either bunk up at cracker-box motels or slump over the wheel after the maximum ten-hour stretch allowed by federal regulation. Spelled by co-drivers, truckers sometimes sleep in their living quarters or just stand, walk around and ease white-line tension. "The better the equipment, the safer the ride," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...taunted me. The best medicine for seasickness was to toss down "200 grams" of vodka, he said, urging me to accompany him to the bar. His suggestion made me feel even sicker, but I thought perhaps it would be more pleasant to die in the bar than on my bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

When Mather House residents arrived for classes this year, they found their quarters more than cramped. Some sophomores for example, were so squeezed that they were forced to bunk in storage closets. Wanting to prevent a similar situation from recurring, the College will try again this spring to change the way they allocate housing space...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: The Spring Ahead | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

...members and Moral Majority missionaries. The most elaborate demonstrations will begin the Saturday before the convention, when a consortium of organizations led by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) kicks off a three-day Alliance for Justice in 1984 program. Organizers expect 2,000 visiting protesters to bunk at a tent city along the banks of the Trinity River. They and like-minded Dallasites plan a door-to-door voter-registration effort and a religious service led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Their goal: to protest the effect of Reagan's policies on low-and moderate-income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coronation in Prime Time | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...architectural consultant, a cheerful young provincial from Chillicothe, Ohio, went from door to door asking astonished Sioux mothers whether they--preferred gas stoves to electric stoves; whether they liked bunk-beds; whether the children could use a "mud room" for their boots and galoshes. The poor fellow seldom received an answer...

Author: By Richard J. Margolis, | Title: Indian Resiliency | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

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