Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full 10 percent of the transportation market, and about 300,000 truck-driving Teamsters have lost jobs since 1979. Operators have slashed rates feverishly and often foolishly...
William Crissey, manager of the Cornell Campus Bus System, said that "because of the growing concern, the bus company has added a second grab-rail to the back steps and has instructed all drivers to warn passengers of potential hazards...
Early in the final period, Blair's grab of a Bob Armstrong slapshot drew sighs from the 2200 in attendance. Less than a minute later, Harvard nearly got its much-needed insurance goal. Crimson Captain Ken Code's slapper deflected off the stick of netminder Jamie Falle, broke through his legs and slid just wide of the open...
...Nixon comeback, to Park Avenue, For a Dick who should have done sepuku A million bucks from David Frost he took. To tell the nation he is not a crook. Of all the comebacks, though, this is the worst: The "contented mom" that was Patty Hearst. Then I grab the mag. I almost toss it. More annoying drip from Farrah Faweett...
...plays as campaign chairman is Sen. Paul Laxalt (R.-Nev.), the person on Capitol Hill closest to Reagan; the chief strategist and campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a former Oakland Raider and assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House. The Reagan team also managed to grab consultant Stu Spencer, the premier political tactician who gave President Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign the only real intellectual power it ever...