Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down, he arrives with an order midway through the film, and the women taunt and ogle him in a not-so-subtle commentary on the way men objectify women. Then Natalie lures him into her bedroom for a "tip," strips off his clothes and engages in a steamy midday roll in the hay. A startled male critic's first thought is that this is an odd place for a fantasy sequence...
...stunning find followed GM charges that Lopez or one of his colleagues took top-secret documents when Lopez bolted to Volkswagen to head its worldwide manufacturing operations. According to GM, the recovered papers included plans for a minicar that Adam Opel, GM's German unit, hopes to roll out in the mid-1990s. Also among the papers, GM said, were plans for a superefficient new factory where the car would be built. As German investigators sifted through the documents, GM officials said federal prosecutors in Detroit were also probing charges that Lopez had absconded with corporate secrets. Lopez, once heir...
...WORST IS SUPPOSED TO BE OVER THIS WEEKEND. THE FLOOD CREST ON THE MISsissippi, 46 ft. above normal (and 3 ft. above the highest ever recorded before), was scheduled to pass St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday. It should roll by Cairo, Illinois, about 180 miles to the south, by Friday. There, the Ohio joins the Mississippi, which moves into a broader, deeper channel that should be able to carry all the water pouring in from upstream without overflowing the levees, dikes and dams south of Cairo. The people, businesses and farms lining the Father of Waters for the roughly...
...trucks accounted for an astonishing 80% of all vehicle sales growth in the U.S. this year. Even Ford's Taurus, the No. 1 selling car in the U.S., has found itself trailing the Ford F-series and the Chevrolet C/K pickup trucks. Not to be outdone, Chrysler plans to roll out a stand-out-in-a-crowd version of its popular Dodge Ram this fall. Designed to resemble a scaled-down 18-wheeler, the truck will come in viper red colors and be equipped with inside pockets and panels for laptop computers...
...humming along at 80% of capacity, up from an average of 75% over the past 20 years. U.S. automakers have recalled 41,000 workers so far in 1993. While Chrysler has just 200 workers still on furlough, Ford has begun limited hiring at several plants to help it roll out the 14 new models the company plans to introduce in the next two years...