Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much less confident one), is running ahead of The Enforcer at the box office. For both men, these successes are predictable in vehicles that fulfill the expectations of their audiences, mostly people who, as Reynolds' pal Comedy Writer Hank Bradford says, "have to take two steps up [into their pickup trucks] to drive home...
...cabaret singer, hit the road for good. Costello grew up in a blue-collar section of London. At 18 he became a computer man in a nearby suburb. His first songs were composed to the whir of machines and the rumble of trains, and on weekends he scratched for pickup jobs as a guitarist...
...surely, had the folks at the Bureau of Land Management known about the new dictum, they never would have issued 155 pages of requirements, including 23 fold-out diagrams, for fire equipment to be purchased for two bureau pickup trucks. The low bid was $31,000, an estimated $8,000 for the equipment and the rest for processing the regulations...
...President, who promised during the campaign to make the White House an example of economy in Government, granting the raises made little political sense. After pleasing the public in January by banning limousines and door-to-door pickup service for his aides, he boosted his major assistants' salaries in March by roughly 25%. The top White House salary was increased from $44,600 to $56,000, but Carter escaped major criticism by pointing out that the raise was $1,500 less than the maximum authorized by Congress. While the latest raises also had congressional approval, their across-the-board...
When Sue St. Louis played those pickup games in Groton this summer, she nurtured the hope that in the fall she might "be good enough to make the team" at Harvard. It seems fair to say now that she's reached that level...