Word: truck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away. They made "eye contact," and he "broke eye contact first." Next, she says she saw "a gold glint or flicker" in his teeth as he said something to one of his companions. (Cousin does have gold caps on his teeth.) She and Gerardi continued walking toward Gerardi's truck. The killer Connie identified as Cousin stopped, bent down and "fiddled" with his boot. (Police were unable to find boots that fit Cousin in his home, and he says he doesn't own any.) Gerardi sent Connie to the passenger's side of the truck and headed toward the driver...
...train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions by 1999. But while the Big Three talk about adding a salad bar to the auto buffet, they are busily cooking up the industry equivalent of pork sandwiches. "Look, we can make a car that runs on rubber bands and squirrels on treadmills," sighs Chrysler vice...
...Three won't U-turn away from big anytime soon. Last year sales of SUVs were up 32.4%, and truck sales of all types rose 4.5%. Passenger-car sales, in contrast, dropped 2.7%, according to Autodata Corp. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J. In that kind of market, the new Beetle is already living up to its far-out image...
...carved like granite; it was curved like a smile. As his friend Tony Orlando the singer said last week, "They're flying a flag half-mast at the White House and all America is watching on TV for a guy who really started out delivering meat in a truck...
...service in World War II and find that the place has atrophied in their absence, that residents are moving out, seeking work in cities, looking for a share in the postwar prosperity. So these young men decide to repeat the past. They dismantle the oven, load it on a truck and move it and their families farther west to start up, from scratch, another Oklahoma town, which they name Ruby to honor the woman in their clan who died after the journey. Ruby is 90 miles from anywhere else, which is just what the new patriarchs want, except...