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Word: towing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper in tow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Ogling the F-20 Tigershark | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

What is the next-best thing to a car that never breaks down? How about an auto backed by a guarantee that if it sputters and stalls, the owner will get a free tow and in some cases a hot dinner, a free hotel room and an airline ticket? Starting May 1, Volvos will come with a three-year guarantee of free 24-hour access to service dispatchers who can arrange tows, repairs and even reimbursement of up to $500 for room, board and alternative transportation if needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Perry thought Mr. Carling “the most good-looking guy” she had ever seen. Noting that her handsome colleague regularly left work with a surfboard in tow, she worked up the courage to ask if he could teach her how to surf at a nearby beach in San Diego, Calif. The two went on a surfing date and were immediately smitten...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Weddings & Engagements | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...thousand miles away. Minneapolis' WCCO, the powerful station that I grew up listening to and whose chuckling, easygoing announcers shaped my identity as a Minnesotan, reached out to me late one evening in eastern Washington as I sat parked on the shoulder of a state highway waiting for a tow from AAA. I felt grateful for that little miracle, then desolate when those hometown announcers faded back to static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in the Orbit of Satellite Radio | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...allegedly told the agent he had netted up to $8 million in arms deals over the past two years and presented Witkowski with a "shopping list" of weapons that included Sidewinder, Sparrow, Harpoon, Phoenix and French-made Exocet missiles. In June, Witkowski signed a contract to provide 1,140 TOW surface-to-surface missiles, supposedly by stealing them. At $8,000 a piece, the missiles would cost $9.1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bent Arrow | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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