Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia. Around Gorazde, some Serbs were stripping their homes of everything transportable--in at least one case literally including the kitchen sink--and setting out for the Serbs' Republika Srpska, newly recognized by the Paris deal. At night, convoys of army trucks trundle down the treacherous mountain slopes and haul out the insides of factories and military bases. The potential for new violence was underscored when two grenades and a mortar fired from the direction of Serb-held territory exploded in an unoccupied area of Sarajevo only minutes after the signing ceremony had flickered off TV screens. On the same...
...billion in U.S. trade with Mexico is delivered by truck, and most of that cargo travels through Texas. The major route is Interstate 35, running north-south through several of the state's major cities--San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth. Specialized trucking firms called drayage companies haul goods in a narrow strip of U.S. territory along the border, where they exchange cargoes for transshipment to border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into Mexico. More than a fourth...
Shar von Boskirk's Anita is heavy on sass, making her excellent in the back-and-forth taunts of "America," but rather too cute for comfort in the long haul. It is hard to play a Puerto Rican caricatures without mugging, however, and it is certainly better to have a spicy Anita than a bland...
...stores. The company lost $46.3 million last year and was close to bankruptcy until Investcorp and other investors pumped in $30 million in August. Kirdar acknowledges that many deals have not worked out as hoped, but cites the bank's willingness to work with troubled companies over the long haul, nursing them back to health...
...Rights Act. So those who insist that the 1964 act--and civil rights principles generally--ought to be interpreted as race-neutral are left with a dilemma. Either they must modify their principles and accept that the world is a bit more complicated than they pretend, or they must haul Oseola McCarty into court for breaking the civil rights laws. I dare them...