Word: truck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organizational success, but not a sales success," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "GM cut sales and manufacturing costs and pruned its operation to the point where chairman Jack Smith even lost his private dining room. But the company's sales are down in the car division, and only their truck division continues to do well." Expect just the opposite when Ford's earnings are released Wednesday, McWhirter says. "Their truck division is setting new sales records, but their earnings should be way down." One reason: the expensive redesign of the Taurus, the company's flagship car, produced an auto that...
...year-old Muslim who worked at the livestock farm near the pit recalls his own jolt one morning, after one of the rare nights in early June when he was not forced to sleep on the premises. On previous occasions, the former truck driver reports, he could hear the sound of the bulldozer working late at night, but he had thought nothing much of it. On the morning in question, he was returning to the job from home and stumbled across a pool of blood on the entrance road...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
Four days after a witness said he saw nine-year-old Amber Hagerman being seized screaming from her bicycle by a stranger in a black pickup truck, a man walking his dog found the child's nude, lifeless body floating in a nearby creek, her throat cut. Police in Arlington, Texas, are investigating all leads...
...needles--hang from the eaves: wild ice stalactites, dragon's teeth. I peer through them to see the world transformed to abstract whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under the snowfall...