Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-haul campaign day (Connecticut to Maryland to Louisiana to Washington, D.C.) had been grueling. Everyone on Gary Hart's chartered 727 was pooped, the candidate most of all. He was in a mood to relax, to be himself. Ambling through the press section, Hart settled into a seat, sipped a drink and spoke freely about his campaign...
KEEPING THE double-rigs off the highway will not spell the demise of the trucking industry. In the short-haul and rapid-shipment markets, trucks will always prove more efficient than railroads, and that market will never be threatened...
...important to remember that trucks only entered the intercity long-haul market in the first place because the government dished up the interstate highway system, and regulations for a long time made that market artificially attractive to them. Permitting double rigs is just another way of encouraging trucks to serve a market--long-haul transportation--in which railroads are up to four times as fuel efficient and less expensive, and where truckers are not really maximizing their profits...
...while, he fretted over not producing the big book that his ability seemed to decree. But writing novels did not interest him, and his curiosity about the world was too sprightly to be harnessed for the long haul. He regularly worried himself sick; hypochondria be came a lifelong pal. As a Cornell student, he was convinced that he had consumption; in his later years he noted: "I have had a frog in my throat for some time now, and of course with me this develops almost instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that...
Well, innocence may be catching up with America, because the U.S. is certainly gaining on the cold world. The team of 120 athletes headed for Sarajevo is flush with champions, and not only skaters this time, although there is a bumper haul of those, but skiers too. Count them, seven current or recent world titleholders: Alpine Skiers Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre and Tamara McKinney, Figure Skaters Scott Hamilton, Rosalynn Sumners and Elaine Zayak, and Nordic Cross-Country Skier Bill Koch. Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves...