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...survive until 1987, , when a new line of midsize vehicles is scheduled to be turned out at a plant being built in Canada at Brampton, Ont. For now, the biggest thing AMC has going for it is its popular Jeep. The company in the fall will introduce a Jeep pickup truck. AMC cannot turn to its partner and part owner, French automaker Renault, for help. Renault is in even worse shape. It lost $1.4 billion last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Expensive, Old and Inefficient | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Indeed, according to many experts in the field, a well-financed group could build one that could fit into a pickup truck or a station wagon. In fact, the U.S. military has developed a 58-lb. bomb powerful enough to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the problem is that the principles of bomb building are well known. In fact, the basic elements of the technology can be found in reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana. The trick is to place two slugs of plutonium close together in a container similar to a gun barrel, then smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backpack Nuke | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country. She sleeps in truck stops because they are safe and coffee is always available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road: a City of the Mind | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...civil war, put the torch to the plundered shops, homes and schools of Christians. Throughout the week, as militiamen from at least three different factions took over the region, residents of Beirut and Sidon drove into the villages to join in the looting. They loaded their cars and pickup trucks with furniture and clothing, raided vegetable gardens and stripped an entire banana plantation before returning home. Some shawled women squatted in doorways, laying claim to the possessions inside and, in some cases, even the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Torching Towns | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Specifically, Pfister announced that door-to-door pickup of trash will be discontinued. Instead, students will be provided with waste baskets and plastic liners, and will empty them in cans outside their entryways. The cans will be serviced twice each...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: Kirkland Begins War on Trash | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

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