Word: pickup
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Crammed into rickety old cars, vans and pickup trucks, hundreds of terrified Palestinians streamed out of this devastated refugee camp Tuesday, holding fluttering white sheets out of the windows, some of them sobbing with terror and relief...
...Detroit Three, though, held out. When they ran into trouble in the early 1980s, the UAW gave some ground on benefits. But in the 1990s the automakers came roaring back to profitability--helped by falling gas prices (which boosted the pickup and SUV segments still dominated by Detroit), a booming stock market (which made pensions easier to finance) and a slowdown in medical-cost inflation...
...That November, he recalled later, he sat in his pickup truck listening to the returns on the radio and claimed to be stunned by the breadth and depth of the landslide. The next morning, when he appeared at a rally at Liberty, the band played "Hail to the Chief...
...first morning of the 2005 school year held more than the typical jitters for Toni Kay Scott. One moment, the seventh-grader, known as T.K., was stepping from her mom's Ford pickup to join friends in front of Redwood Middle School in Napa, Calif. Minutes later, the police officer assigned to watch arriving students was steering her toward the principal's office...
...good news is that baseball as a game hasn't lost its grip on the Japanese soul. Every summer Japan is transfixed by the national high school baseball championship tournament, so passionate that it makes March Madness look like a pickup game at the YMCA. Ratings for local pro games may be low, but millions of Japanese will tune in to Matsuzaka's Red Sox games. If Japanese pro ball can liberalize--perhaps by sharing revenue to add competitive balance--there's no reason it can't recapture Japan. After all, there are some aspects of the Japanese game that...