Word: dealership
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...pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind, and kids on bicycles stop to gaze at the rolling house...
...from the Appalachians to the Rockies, for all of our history a taproot that nourished the other branches. The crisis of the farms themselves has passed for now, but around Greenfield's town square the economic strain has worsened. A hardware store, a drugstore, a grocery store, a Ford dealership have all closed within three years. County residents are lured to the shopping centers of Des Moines, 60 miles east over smooth highways they helped build...
...common element in these cases and in shootings at a high school in Washington and a car dealership in Norfolk, Va., was more than the threat to innocent bystanders. All involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last...
...sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs. It marked the most sweeping invocation of victim-compensation...
...unconnected businesses. With 76,000 employees in 22 countries, the company operates the eighth largest insurance brokerage in the world, a sizable construction firm, an investment bank, and Mandarin Oriental, a leading chain of hotels from San Francisco to Bangkok. Its Hong Kong operations range from the local Mercedes dealership to Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises. But the core of the company's holdings is $3.2 billion worth of real estate in Hong Kong's central business district -- fully 65% of the office and commercial space in the area...