Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruse was the idea of Star Managing Editor William Coughlin, 61, a former Los Angeles Times Beirut bureau chief. After the Oct. 23 truck-bomb attack...
When the government began constructing the interstates in the 1950s, truck weight limits were about two-thirds of what they are now. Projected traffic volume has everywhere outstripped what the government expected, largely because it was a self-perpetuating cycle--when truckers saw a fabulous new system of highways come in, they moved quickly to take business from the railroads, and as the government saw demand for the highways grow, both from truckers and a postwar America that was buying more and more automobiles, it planned longer and larger interstates, further encouraging truckers to grow...
There is little sense in double rigs with theoretical weight equal to those of 45-foot trailers, but with 11 tempting feet of extra cargo space. These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full...
...weekend it was just about over. Wave after wave of Sea Knight and Sea Stallion helicopters ferried equipment and supplies from a coastal landing pad near Beirut International Airport to the waiting ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet outlined, gray on gray, on the horizon. Nudged by a forklift truck, a long-barreled 155-mm howitzer trundled slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored...
...contest between prosecutors in California and neighboring Nevada is grim, but the two states have a common goal: they want to make certain that Gerald Gallego will die. A jury in California's Sacramento County last May convicted Gallego, 37, a former truck driver, of kidnaping a college couple, raping the woman and then killing both students. Gallego, whose father Gerald was executed in Mississippi in 1955 after a murder conviction, was sentenced to die. Says James Morris, the chief prosecutor: "He's a chip off the old block...