Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury acquitted Gotti and six co-defendants of carrying out at least two murders, two armored car robberies that netted $1 million, truck hijackings, loansharking and gambling over an 18-year period...
...finish the week at 77 7/ 8. The decision also sparked a general stock market rally, which sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 53.71 points to a record 2280.23. But the euphoria will soon fade unless GM revs up its sputtering business. Its car and truck sales so far in 1987 are down 28.4% from the same period a year...
...without having anyone lose face." The tale that ecologists were using airplanes to drop vipers into the woods of Perigord (as prey for endangered hawks) expressed provincial contempt for ecologists as impractical outsiders. "No one bothered to ask whether it wouldn't be cheaper to rent a car or truck to release the snakes," says Kapferer, "or whether the snakes would survive a fall from an airplane...
...meantime, distress has generated disorder. Last week in Rio de Janeiro thousands of truck drivers who haul food to warehouses went on strike for higher pay, and supermarket shelves began to empty. Some truckers who tried to deliver produce got their windshields smashed as they drove through gauntlets of rock-throwing pickets. After 48 hours of disruption, the strike ended when drivers received a hefty 72% raise...
...country performers in particular are completely overdrawn. None is allowed to develop a personality and after initially exchanging remarks like "six packs of tears," "backseat of the pickup truck of love," and "rhinestone cowprod" can find little else...