Word: rental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought most of the country's vast railroad network to a stop, idling three General Motors plants, stranding goods and produce on their way to market and even causing the cancellation of a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside the Northeast, Amtrak passengers scrambled for rental cars and airline tickets as service that normally runs along freight lines was disrupted. The strike, however, was temporarily ended 48 hours after it began when Congress approved a bill calling for an arbitrator to settle the disagreement...
Ultimately sold out by cellular, the Seales were apprehended after a fast- paced four-hour chase that ended at a Hackettstown, N.J., car-rental agency. There, Mrs. Seale was caught with a briefcase containing some extraordinary items: three .38-cal. bullets and a 1985 directory of home addresses for Exxon executives. A search of the house where the Seales had been staying turned up the scribbled phone numbers of banks in Zurich and Karachi, and a book on money laundering. Former Exxon security guard Seale and his wife, both 45, face life in prison if convicted. Investigators last Saturday discovered...
...rental firms may come out the best, in part because they are less vulnerable to bargain shoppers. Many Americans who would otherwise have taken a trip in their own cars this summer have ventured far afield, thanks to the low-priced air tickets, and plan to rent cars. Hertz reservations are already up 25% from last summer, and have doubled in Denver and some other popular cities. Hardest hit are travel agents, who earn their commissions based on costs, and nearly all components of their business are operating at lower price levels. Some predict wave after wave of fare...
...Crane, the star of TV's Hogan's Heroes, was bludgeoned to death in his bed in Scottsdale, Ariz. The crime remained unsolved for 14 years, until investigators re-examined a thread of brain tissue found in a rental car. Last week they arrested John Henry Carpenter, a video-equipment salesman, and charged him with the murder, which he denies. Forensic scientists matched the tissue with a sample from Crane's bloody pillowcase. Complained Carpenter's attorney: "How the flesh sample was overlooked for 14 years is beyond...
AFEW WEEKS AGO, I saw a woman who looked quite lost in The Crimson's hallway. She was looking for our rental space, she said. I showed her where it was. Trying to make small talk, I asked what sort of organization she was with. " Oh, it's not an organization," she said. "It's just a group of girls...