Word: pickups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chilling campfire tale. But it appears to be anything but isolated. It may in fact be just one episode in a real-life horror movie, a cross-country killing spree that has triggered a nationwide manhunt. The police are looking for the man who may be driving that red pickup, a man who has been moving eastward, from San Diego to Minneapolis, Minn., to Chicago and now the New Jersey coast, using a series of stolen vehicles, a man who has been charged thus far with only one crime but about whom Philadelphia FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi noted, "Everywhere...
...will not have the last word on this." The strike will force Chrysler to shut down production at four assembly plants on Friday, affecting another 12,000 employees, since the engines built at the Mound Road plant are used by the others to produce Chrysler's Dodge Ram, Dakota pickup trucks and the popular Jeep Grand Cherokee. Company executives are expected to solve the dispute quickly - both in truth to its reputation and because each day of the strike results in at least $11 million in lost net income...
...whether he remembers any happy times with his dad, and he tells stories of outings that end in car crashes or fighting. Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about that time when Jackie stole the pickup truck or dynamited the beech tree or bashed in the windshield or held the church congregation hostage. Says Kay's father, Chester Williams, a retired coal miner and preacher: "He felt like he could do anything and get by with...
...Tennessee roads from one fund raiser to the next, he would give his campaign manager, Bill Lacy, long disquisitions on the flaws of the current system. An underdog against a better-financed Democrat, Thompson was finally exasperated enough by conventional campaigning to don battered boots and lease a red pickup to travel the state talking about how "Ol' Fred" would bring common sense to Washington. Voters loved the whole bit, even when it came from a rich lawyer with a Washington lobbying practice...
...which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets. I have always enjoyed pickup games or getting together on a lazy afternoon and playing some Ultimate Frisbee, but I could have never put in the time that high school athletes...