Word: pickup
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Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...
...especially handy, which may be an indication of how easy it is to assemble a mail bomb. "Ted was a hard worker," says his closest neighbor, Leland Mason, 57, "but he was not a smart worker. Short on common sense. He was not mechanically inclined. He had one old pickup truck one summer and drove it until it quit on him. It was just a minor thing that was wrong with the truck, but he didn't know how to fix it. He just let it sit up there, until somebody bought it from him. It only cost...
...prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says either Mahon or his brother Daniel owns a brown pickup truck that resembles the one witnesses say fled the Murrah building minutes before the bombing...
...suspected illegal Mexican immigrants on a Los Angeles freeway Monday led civil right groups to wonder if any progress had been made since the 1991 beating of Rodney King. The arrest of the Mexican man and woman, who were transporting 21 people in the back of their rusty pickup, does have many of the key ingredients of the King arrest: a high speed chase, prolonged use of force by officers after a suspect had collapsed, and a videotaped recording of every baton blow. However, says TIME's Sylvester Monroe, that is where the similarity ends: "It is not Rodney King...
...suspected illegal Mexican immigrants on a Los Angeles freeway Monday led civil right groups to wonder if any progress had been made since the 1991 beating of Rodney King. The arrest of the Mexican man and woman, who were transporting 21 people in the back of their rusty pickup, does have many of the key ingredients of the King arrest: a high speed chase, prolonged use of force by officers after a suspect had collapsed, and a videotaped recording of every baton blow. However, says TIME's Sylvester Monroe, that is where the similarity ends: "It is not Rodney King...