Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eerie silence descended on the abandoned towns, broken only by the whimper of untended animals and the clatter of looters. Along the roadsides, hundreds of bicycles lay twisted by treads of Croatian armor. There were also bodies. The corpses of two Serbs who had been fleeing on a tractor lay next to a recently harvested field. By midweek nearly every house had had its front door kicked in. Croat soldiers had casually sorted through rooms, collecting what was desirable and often setting fire to a house once they were done. Near the town of Slunj, Milka Jurcic, a 73-year...
After spending two and a half years in college being mocked by friends and defending my lifestyle to people who have been driving since they were thirteen and first got a crack at the tractor, I decided to take action. I would take driving lessons for real and get my license. I would drive myself across the country, chaperone friends, start a taxi service. I called up a driving school in New York and started taking lessons...
Other companies that turned lean under the pressure of foreign competition are now poised to profit from a cheap peso that lowers the price of their exports. Min-Cer, a maker of wheel and drum components for tractor-trailers, plans to export 90% of its output this year. ``We are expecting a very steep drop in domestic demand, but we're working three shifts a day for exports,'' general director Carlos de la Garza says...
...Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths that cost $10 million apiece. Some toppled over, and others were on their...
What Bosnia shows is not the inherent incompetence or uselessness of the U.N., but rather more like what happens when the rider gets off a tractor and leaves the machine to drive on its own: it goes around in circles. And the member states have not taken the opportunity to fit it with an auto-pilot. They have passed up several opportunities to grant the U.N. a real military capability, a reform that might have allowed it to actually do what should be done in Bosnia...