Word: rig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels gleaming and spoked. It is followed by one of a blond bulging out of a hint of cop clothes writing a naughty trucker a ticket...
...surprised few oil-industry watchers that Hartley, a man with a reputation for being as blunt and hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...
...keeping my hopes up. Tinfoil is supposed to be pretty effecting against nuclear radiation, so I'm convering my windows. Once I figure out how to rig up a microwave, we won't even need the foil. I just hope the MBTA keeps on running...
...budgets. Before Roger and Jill Spencer of Montgomery, Pa., got theirs, he was home only twelve days in a six- month period. "When I told him," says Jill, "he didn't believe it. I missed him and all." Like many trucking couples, the Spencers share a passion for their rig. The couple's $100,000 Peterbilt truck and Double Eagle sleeper combination has won several prizes at truck shows. "It's almost like our baby," admits Jill. And for those actually having a baby? On March 15, a little girl, Julia Louise, was born to the Yanceys of Chula Vista...
Lenders, too, are getting tough with the Hunts. The principal banks used by Hunt International Resources, a huge sugar refiner and drilling-rig operator, have stopped paying some of the company's bills. The firm two weeks ago said that it would probably never be able to repay all of its $295 million in defaulted loans. One result: company paychecks were bouncing last week. Until recently, the banks were willing to keep lending to the company. Now the impatient institutions are putting heavy pressure on Hunt International to sell its assets in order to pay off its mounting debts...