Word: pickup
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...education. People have to send their kids to school no matter what the economic conditions are. Post-secondary education tends to be a pretty secure place to be too. People will ride out recession by going back to school. And there are certain utilities, like water, electricity, gas, garbage pickup, sewage treatment. These things will be needed no matter what the economy...
...emigrant nation, in which enormous numbers of young men and women continue to risk their lives sneaking into "El Norte" for a perceived better life. Every weekend, dozens of participants pay about $20 apiece to scramble up hills, slide down ravines and run through tunnels pursued by siren-blaring pickup trucks and pumped-up border-patrol agents shouting in accented English. (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico...
Toyota Motor Co., despite its financing deals and a heavy advertising schedule, reported that sales of its SUVs dropped 32% and sales of its pickup trucks fell 42%. Even sales of the ubiquitous Toyota Camry took a hit. "Right now the market is quite challenged," says Robert Carter, Toyota's vice president of sales, noting that even lower gasoline prices have failed to excite consumers...
...pain is hitting real estate too. Hamptons realty agent Rick Hoffman of Corcoran says his market usually gets an infusion of Wall Street money this time of year - thanks to the bonus payouts - but he isn't expecting a pickup in slow sales anytime soon. He says he is seeing the weakest prices in years on the east end of Long Island, where Wall Streeters have traditionally bought their weekend homes. For example, last week a seller dropped the price on a five-bedroom, 6 1/2-bath, 7,000-sq.-ft. home, located on an acre of land, to just under...
...group of U.S. Airborne Rangers running an exercise] waited at the departure airfield, I looked out the back of the plane and watched two late 1970s pickup trucks hurrying toward us. The men in the trucks were strikingly different than the uniformed Rangers all around me. Some were much older, some had short, well-groomed hair, while a few had very long hair that blew in the wind. Others wore long and thick mustaches or goatees. The mystery men grabbed small black bags from the truck, walked on to the plane, and took seats on the cold metal flooring without...