Word: pickups
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...attended a Texas state fair last year, you might have noticed a group of Japanese men dressed in jeans and boots, gazing at the sea of pickup trucks in the parking area. The men were from Toyota, which has been trying with scant success for years to persuade Americans to dump their Ford and Chevy pickups--the cowboy Cadillacs of the heartland--for a Toyota. Spending hours observing folks as they tailgated, hitched up horse trailers and hauled everything from plywood to goat sheds, the Japanese took copious notes, even if they still couldn't quite understand the American lovefest...
...outlaw Montana that I moved to 15 years ago and that my Eastern friends had apprehensions about--many of them quickly dismissed once they visited and fired a few rounds from the target pistols I own or took a pickup down to a local bar with a poker table in its back room--is setting like the evening sun. Ragged former cow towns like Bozeman are turning into suburbanized high-tech meccas for Ph.D.s who like to go rafting and snowboarding. These immigrants have brought with them an exotic culture of dining spots that feature formal wine lists, bookstores that...
...years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
...declined from $1.22 in May of 1984 to $1.15 by last January. In response, companies curbed production. At least 18 American refineries closed last year. The cutbacks have reduced U.S. inventories of gasoline by 9%, to 222 million bbl., since December. The tight supply and a seasonal pickup in driving this spring helped push prices back up. Another factor contributing to higher prices was the expense that oil companies faced to meet a July 1 Government-imposed deadline for reducing the amount of lead in gasoline by more than...
...studying” here, but for extra potential, head on up to the sixth floor to the LRC (Language Resource Center). If the ability to speak a foreign language isn’t enough, try wearing the super-cool ’80s style headphones. Potential pickup lines include “voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” and “Tu es muy caliente ay ay ay,” but we might need a little help with that pronunciation. Surely a freshman would know where to inflect the “ay?...