Word: loads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Enough has happened that it warrants a look," says Congressman Bates. The San Diego hearing documented an unduly harsh, arbitrary management style. Witnesses told of the police being summoned to a San Diego suburb to settle one of the nearly daily disputes over the load in each carrier's bag. A study showed that 45% of the 837 carrier routes in San Diego require more than an eight-hour shift to complete. Taking time off for surgery or unapproved nose blowing is a punishable act. "There's a rule for everything," testified a San Diego shop steward. "If a supervisor...
...America's Cup. In the same determined manner, Bond, 51, has run up more than $3 billion of debt in recent years while capturing a global empire of properties ranging from half of Chile's telephone system to Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing. To lighten his crushing debt load, Bond is now shedding properties almost as fast as he acquired them...
...Sheridan cannot carry the offensive load all by himself. And if the Cadets want to march into the playoffs, they'll need some more firepower...
...know what will go and where it will go," he boasts. The house fills both lanes and knocks into a speed-limit sign, shattering two back windowpanes. Shelton Kelly walks ahead, bending back or briefly yanking out a few signs in order to make room for the wide load. Oncoming traffic generally gives way, yet one van driver insists on trying to squeeze...
Eventually, the driver maneuvers past the house. "He saw me coming," Malone snarls, as he hunches over the wheel. "These two-lane highways are mighty aggravating when I got a wide load...