Word: tire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their men. After the resumption of fighting, there were clashes off and on between the Israelis and Syrian and Palestinian forces around the Beirut airport and in the hills east of the city. On Wednesday, a cloud of black smoke hung over West Beirut from a fire at a tire factory that had been hit by Israeli bombs...
Carmen signed for the 30-year, $425,000 loan at 6.5% interest in 1975 when an urban renewal project forced him to relocate his auto-and-tire service business (sold in 1979) in Manchester, N.H. Since July 1981, he has received two six-month deferments on his monthly payments. Carmen, who earns $59,500 a year, insists such deferments are available "to any American citizen...
Will we ever tire of seeing the faces of frightened young men behind a gun fighting some politician...
...find themselves over their heads in debt. As sales continue to slacken and interest rates remain high, some of the largest and most successful American corporations are experiencing problems. Last week RCA Corp. was negotiating to sell its Hertz auto-rental subsidiary for about $700 million to Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. so that it could reduce its nearly $3 billion debt. Boeing saw its bond rating reduced by Standard & Poor's from AA-to A because it will have to borrow heavily in order to finance the construction of new 767 and 757 airliners. Phelps Dodge, which announced earlier...
...more to his credit that he doesn't attempt to find it out on the open road like Kerouac. The country's illness, as diagnosed by protagonist Allie, stems from the uppity attitude people have towards work and education. ("Can't find a Harvard graduate who can change the tire on his car.") In Central America Allie thinks he will find an unspoiled land, untainted by the wretchedness of sloth and religion ("If God hadn't rested the seventh day. Maybe he would have finished the job.") So it's typical that Theroux seeks solutions to America's malaise...