Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost unmasked when a coffee-shop waitress took a good look at her and noted that her expensive hairdo "didn't come from around here." So what matters in Laskerville? "Everything that is important seems to be tied directly to children," observes Dan Fox, head...
...state's suit includes claims that these Cambridge city officials stopped all trash pickup at the school for several weeks in the summer of 1988 and later conspired to conceal their neglect. The state also claims that they barred Commonwealth Day officials from moving equipment into their building, acting at the request of school neighbors...
...much easier than adapting them to electric power: through replacement of the carburetor and fuel system, existing autos can be converted to burn CNG at a cost of about $2,000. Carmakers can build CNG-fueled vehicles from scratch without major retooling. GM plans to manufacture about 1,000 pickup trucks that run on natural gas this spring, its first such vehicles...
...February as in January. The Mortgage $ Bankers Association reported last week that mortgage-application volume during February more than doubled from what it had been in December. While most of that growth came from refinancing activity as homeowners traded down to lower interest rates, the remainder represents a significant pickup in buying...
...into the center of the city, where parking lots were carpeted with broken glass and scores of buildings that had been set on fire by Iraqi troops still smoldered. Members of the Kuwaiti resistance movement joined in the parade, shooting into the air with rifles from the back of pickup trucks. Saudi soldiers added to the din with bursts of machine-gun fire...