Word: tractorized
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...mile off. The crowd of 6,600 is chanting your name. Your wife's counting on you, thinking about a little red sports car. Your son, the Nintendo addict, wants a new computer. You'd love some cash for your daughter's college education and to buy a tractor for yourself. And maybe, just maybe, you could quit your $32,000-a-year job as a pipe fitter...
...among all 12 countries. Across Western Europe, an estimated 63,000 customs workers found themselves looking for new jobs. As Retegui walked glumly through Irun's deserted halls, only a single clerk was at work, clearing a salmon shipment from Sweden, a non-E.C. country. In the distance, tractor trailers thundered down the highway, barely slowing as they approached the crossing. "Who could believe we would be working flat out through December," said union official Ricardo Urtizberea, "and then suddenly find ourselves without...
...Soviet workers are stirred by an almost religious enthusiasm; in spite of shortages, difficulties, hardships. The Stalingrad tractor factory was finished six months ahead of schedule...
Scheduled next for the auction block are Intourist hotels, state-owned hard- currency shops and 5,600 major factories, including the Vladimir tractor factory in central Russia...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...