Word: truck
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While Tom parlays a bright lab notion into a megafortune and toys with entering presidential politics, his little family remains adrift. Mary, in a singular--and unlikely--act of daring, downsizes the controls of an old truck and teaches her daughter Jane, now 10, how to drive it, an effort that takes months. Finally, however, the terrified kid manages to tool across the mountains--howling Hiawatha as she goes--to visit her father. Though Owens makes a pro forma denial of paternity, he actually sends for Jane's mother and salts the pair away in a nearby cabin. Now they...
...doll-size wooden rocking chair that sways from left to right instead of from front to back 2. An ice bucket 3. A copy of the 10th Amendment 4. A white pickup truck...
...Second District this century. Like Helms, Funderburk thinks food stamps are wasteful--as is aid to countries that are not our friends. Democrats determined to get their seat back hope that the 1995 flap over an auto accident--the Congressman pleaded no contest to running a truck off the road--will derail...
Blain has been a truck builder and union member for 30 years (he retired this year), and his political credentials are pure working-class. So are his positions: He opposes free-trade agreements like NAFTA and gatt (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) because he believes they expose the American laborer to harsher competition from abroad. He also supports family medical leave and regular, predictable increases in the minimum wage...
Pzena first learned how to brew while an undergraduate studying economics at the University of Chicago. He now drives a pick-up truck with a bumper sticker reading "Think Globally, Brew Locally...