Word: racks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to FBI agents, the red-haired Yarbrough, 29, is a former member of an Idaho-based neo-Nazi group called Aryan Nations. Yarbrough and five other members of the group were charged last week with a pair of armored-rack robberies worth more than $4 million. Yarbrough is also charged with opening fire on three FBI agents outside his home in October. The formidable arms cache discovered in his home after his arrest included crossbows, plastic explosives, hand grenades, night-vision scopes and semiautomatic rifles. Said Yarbrough: "The Bible tells me to prepare for the day of destruction...
...already find myself browsing for films in video stores the same way I shop for books." San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson rented a machine to see what all the furor was about, and promptly ODed on movie tapes. "Strange things happen to rational people when they are faced with rack after rack of ad venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield, the senior editor who supervised the cover package, also hope for a VCR. He already has one, but it is hooked...
Emery's two largest customers, General Motors and IBM, rack up huge air courier bills. The service pays its way, however, by allowing them to keep on hand smaller stockpiles of spare parts. Says John C. Emery Jr., chairman of the firm founded by his father: "Companies are controlling their inventory by relying on us for fast delivery of vital shipments." At its Memphis headquarters, Federal Express stockpiles supplies for 64 of its commercial customers in a giant warehouse called the parts bank. From this source, the company can dispatch items wherever they are needed...
Well-funded Soviet cosmonauts rack up a string of triumphs...
...violence that continued to rack the black townships outside Johannesburg last week took no account of the significance of a forthcoming event that could eventually change the complexion of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination. This week in the city of Cape Town, where white settlers first landed 332 years ago, the whites' absolute monopoly on the country's political power will come to a theoretical end. Representatives of South Africa's 2.8 million "coloreds," or people of mixed race, and its 850,000 Indians will formally take their seats in a new tricameral Parliament...