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...figures it's payback for all those insufferable, phony-rich, new-economy yuppies in their view-blocking, death-dealing, friend-of-OPEC SUVs. "Gas will probably go to $3, and I applaud it," says the retired computer-company executive as he fills the tank of his light pickup truck at a station in Los Angeles. "I'd like to see all gas guzzlers off the road...
...House, Congress and the public saw their achievement as high national priorities. There is no such consensus on national missile defense. Democrats are balking. Even the CIA's latest threat analysis says the most likely threats are not incoming missiles but rather such portable weapons of mass destruction as truck and suitcase bombs...
...annual meeting, Ford unveiled the company's first annual "corporate citizenship" report. Replete with self-criticisms of the company's reliance on huge, emissions-belching SUVs, the 98-page report drew a bewildering avalanche of press--from environmentalists who saw it as a triumph, and from hardened SUV and truck lovers who saw it as the pinnacle of hypocrisy. Was Ford just going to stop making the ground pounders that account for more than 50% of its revenues...
...that was left were patches of yellowed grass where the tents had been and a heap of trash, including the torn-down facade of “Tent City Hall,” where notices had been posted for the camp-out community. Parked outside Mass. Hall was a truck from the A.M.-P.M. Cleaning Corporation. Vacuums whirred inside the building...
...quiet part of the country during a quiet time of year. I stop the car in the middle of a main street, just to see if anything will happen. Sixty seconds - nothing. Two minutes - nothing. Five minutes - nothing. Finally, after I don't know how long, a lone pickup truck comes up the road. I watch in the rearview mirror as he approaches, and casually drives past me, giving me a mildly quizzical look, and keeps going on down around the road. I contrast this with the instant fusillade of honking, yelling, fist-waving and litigation that a microsecond...