Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face untold costs in settling liability lawsuits relating to fire hazards in its Chevrolet and GMC pickup trucks, 5 million of which are still on the road. Newly released internal documents indicate that from 1983 to 1987, GM recognized but failed to correct a design flaw that exposed side fuel tanks during crash impacts, allegedly causing about 300 deaths...
Perhaps they will, but finally the noose seems to be tightening. Last week the U.N. Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat...
...Food has gone up, fuel has gone up. Everything has gone up but my paycheck," Reid says. "My husband and I are just getting by. When the basics are done, my paycheck's done...
Global presence? Those are big words from a company that was so hard up two years ago its officers told its pilots to taxi out to the runways on one engine instead of two in order to save fuel. In one swift maneuver, Continental may have swerved away from a penurious future as a second-tier operator and headed back toward the front ranks of major carriers. Within hours of Ferguson's announcement, the industry was buzzing with talk of other new partners that might extend the Houston airline's reach in Asian and other markets...
...218th Year of the Man. Everything that the new female Senators and Congresswomen manage to accomplish will add to the credibility of the next surge of female candidates. And everything they don't get done will only add to the anger, and hence to the feminist resources, available to fuel the fire next time...