Word: truck
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...Harbaugh. The executive vice president of Toledo Molding & Die, which makes machine tools and automotive parts, says his company spent a full year finding a qualified tool-and-die repair worker for one of its seven plants. But now, with another tool-and-die specialist injured, the company must truck parts between plants for repair...
Like Beavis & Butt-head, King of the Hill is a manifestation of Judge's longtime obsession with an America of tract homes and monster truck shows, Dairy Queens and Wal-Marts. "Mike has surrounded himself in Texas with great raconteurs," notes Sam Johnson, a former Beavis writer who is now executive story editor on NBC's NewsRadio. "They regale him with tales of misfit friends and trailer-park relatives. Mike is repelled by this world and also incredibly attracted...
...tightening its grip outside the U.S. and Western Europe. In India, researchers estimate that by the year 2000, anywhere from 15 million to 50 million people could be HIV positive. Half the prostitutes in Bombay are already infected, and doctors report that the disease is spreading along major truck routes and into rural areas, as migrant workers bring the virus home. In Central and Eastern Europe, countries that had largely escaped the epidemic are seeing an explosion in the number of cases, mainly among IV drug users and their heterosexual contacts...
...whether he remembers any happy times with his dad, and he tells stories of outings that end in car crashes or fighting. Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about that time when Jackie stole the pickup truck or dynamited the beech tree or bashed in the windshield or held the church congregation hostage. Says Kay's father, Chester Williams, a retired coal miner and preacher: "He felt like he could do anything and get by with...
CLEARED. TERRYL SCHWALIER, Air Force brigadier general in charge of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia where 19 U.S. airmen were killed in a truck bombing in June; of any culpability in the blast; in Washington...