Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sources report the thieves, armed with high-powered rifles, waited behind the Purolator garage and fired through a garage door after the arrival of an armored truck carrying money from Hartford for delivery to several New York City banks...
...looks like a typical small pickup truck, but Japan's Subaru insists that the BRAT DL, a four-wheel-drive vehicle with an open cargo bed that it sells in the U.S. for $5,288, is really a "bi-drive recreational all-terrain transporter." The difference is important, at least to the manufacturer and U.S. Customs. By placing two seats in the BRAT'S cargo area, Subaru is able to import the machine as a car, on which the tariff is only 3%, rather than as a truck, on which the import tax is a far heftier...
Subaru is scarcely alone in using this loophole: not one of the 335,000 pickups imported last year was taxed at the full truck rate. The 25% levy, introduced by Congress in 1963 in retaliation for a European tax on American chickens, was originally designed to hit imports of the Volkswagen Transporter, which is no longer produced. Successive administrations have let the tariff go unenforced, and this is not likely to change, despite a General Accounting Office estimate that about $600 million in truck import taxes have been lost since 1971. Reason: U.S. automakers are playing the customs game alongside...
...HEIGHTS--This was really opening day in a lot of respects. There was the weather, a constant reminder to all that the baseball season begins a week too early. There were the fans, blow-dried guys, and the girls who all looked like nurses. There was a Good Humor truck in the parking lot, and the good-humor man himself. Larry Brown, on the mound for Harvard...
Still and all, there are some good things about this movie. One of them is pretty Amy Irving who plays the deaf woman. She falls for Michael Ontkean, a laundry truck driver and strip joint singer. Before she knows it, she has dumped her deaf boyfriend Scott and started spending nights at the Hoboken, N.J. apartment her new boyfriend shares with his extended family of stereotypes--1) hopeless professional gambler father, 2) gang member brother, and 3) kindly, white-haired, tailor grandfather. This crew goes about their stock business as usual (Pa loses $2700 on Sleepwalker in the seventh, brother...