Word: pickup
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...spell. "So much for rolling right on in," says Captain Brian Chontosh, who heads the infantrymen of India Company. But they are protected. The deep percussion of artillery impacting the target area booms through the night, sending a huge black cloud into the sky. Aerial surveillance spots a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun moving in from the west. From above comes a deep rumbling sound. "Basher took it out," says a radio operator in Chontosh's carrier. Insurgents seen trying to set up a mortar position are killed with a TOW missile fired by another company. Around midnight...
...politics, and beer magnate Pete Coors boasts both in the race to replace retiring Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Coors, 58, faces state attorney general Ken Salazar, 49, who has done a savvy job of playing up his humble rancher's roots; as he drives around in a pickup truck, the pro-choice Catholic calls for prescription-drug imports from Canada and a rollback of the Patriot Act. While attacking pork-barrel spending, Coors has stressed his business acumen and conservative values (favorite book: the Bible). Lately he has gotten flak for his family's outsourcing of jobs--a little reminder...
...killing fields of western Sudan stretch across an area almost as big as Texas. The Janjaweed roam the windswept plains and parts of the central range of jagged, extinct volcanoes on camels and horses or in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns. Bands of 10 or 12 men swoop into a village, shoot the men and boys, rape the women, loot and burn huts and mosques, rip up crops and slaughter or steal livestock. Halima, 30, was working in her family's field in the village of Gadarra when she heard "the voice of guns" last July. "The attackers were...
Ever since that dark day, life in America began to look more and more like life back home. Everyone had to be on alert, careful, and uncertain. There were flags in yards, on windows, cars, and pickup trucks. People were always talking about how the government was going to respond to the attack and at the same time getting ready for the next attack—and similarly speculating about the response to that attack, and so on. There was hardly any talk about a real cure for the problem of terrorism. America, it seemed to me, was failing...
...buying frenzy. A desire to boost earnings with new retail customers, combined with a general pickup in mergers and acquisitions, has rekindled a decades-old trend of bank consolidation. The banking industry has announced $114 billion worth of M&A's so far this year, including the $58 billion blockbuster that brought together...