Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...
...game ended abruptly as the ball was pushed over a locked fence, and Mr. Capiello, with other campus policemen, quickly deflated it and drove it away in a pick-up truck...
...police took away a truck, a motorcycle and $300 in cash and checks," O'Connor said. "They stuffed boxes and suitcases with what they took, stuff like books, identification papers, even hockey equipment...
...effort to acquire the modern technology that they have failed to develop sufficiently themselves, the Soviets are dangling before the eyes of Western and Japanese businessmen trade deals amounting to some $12 billion over the next few years. They want to buy a heavy-truck factory from West Germany, a freight-containerization system from Britain and petrochemical plants from France. They are negotiating deals totaling more than $1 billion with the British for the construction of copper and nickel plants in Siberia and the modernization of the port of Murmansk. They are buying Italian machines for making a wide range...
...complexity of dealing with the Communists, as well as by criticism at home from stockholders and customers. The Soviets have sought to buy computers from IBM, but so far the company does not seem eager to do much business with them. Henry Ford was invited to build a truck plant in Russia, but he backed away from the proposal after Defense Secretary Melvin Laird publicly warned that Ford's trucks might ultimately end up rumbling down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Pisar thinks that that was a mistake. He asks: "What could have been a greater admission...