Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canal Street cocktail lounge where she worked as a waitress and drove him to a deserted road outside the city. Police allege that Foat and her then husband, John Sidote, a bouncer at the lounge who had been hiding in the trunk, bludgeoned Chayo to death with a tire iron and robbed...
Most American workers consider competition from Japanese imports at east partly responsible for pushing U.S. industry into its worst downturn since the Great Depression. But last week a group of grateful blue-collar workers in LaVergne, Tenn., a tiny factory town outside Nashville, welcomed the Japanese as saviors. Bridgestone Tire Co. of Japan bought LaVergne's truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery...
...early 1980 to 260. Bridgestone intends to keep on all current employees and recall 170 laid-off workers, probably by next week. The company will invest $35 million over the next five years to retool the factory with efficient new equipment and perhaps quadruple the current tire output...
...help ensure international recognition, christened the company with an inverted English translation of his own name: ishi means stone, and bashi means bridge. After half a century of phenomenal growth, Bridgestone (1981 sales: $3.3 billion) exports 50% of its production and is the world's fourth largest tire manufacturer, behind Goodyear, Michelin and Firestone...
...right," he said at last "You may start the exam." The four roommates turned over the pages Each one bore the same two words: "WHICH TIRE...