Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Food is received by truck at the Union every day--in varying quantities--and refrigerated immediately...
...touch it! Clear the building!" But it's too late. Just as the pudgy fireman who drives the rear end of the big red Cambridge fire truck trundles in, it detonates. Out pop two slightly warm, moderately dehydrated slices of cinnamon raisin...
...industrial relations: "This whole company is paralyzed, and we'll start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million new cars and trucks for 1985. Strong auto business helped the economy grow at a 3.3% annual rate for the three months ended Sept. 30, up from 1.1% for the first half of the year. Small-truck sales in particular are booming, and dealers are looking forward to buyer reaction to new models...
...other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed the "Trojan Horse" incident, and thousands of people turned...
...what had been an employee conference room, McFarlane and his aides waited somberly with their news. The gentle folks of Sara Lee had rented a big desk and hung an ersatz presidential seal to make the place seem properly official. A tiny pen holder shaped like a Sara Lee truck cheeerily waved the bakery's banner. Reagan entered, the door closed, the men who run the U.S. huddled...