Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese have cut inventory costs by building parts plants next to assembly plants and using the same part on several car models. Now Chrysler, instead of shipping big batches of transaxles by rail from its Kokomo, Ind., plant to Belvidere, Ill., for assembly, moves smaller loads by truck, gaining at least 24 hours. Total saving on inventory from such measures: $450 million a year. Chrysler has cut the number of different parts it uses to 40,000, from 70,000. That means, for instance, that van buyers can choose only one kind of tinted glass, not two. Total savings: about...
...channel, a weather channel or a financial channel." Its theme is the world according to country. Its 18 hours of daily programming boast a cornucopia of country culture: 30 minutes of live music a night on Nashville After Hours; 1-40 Paradise, a country comedy set in a Tennessee truck stop; Dancin' U.S.A. (watch rhinestone cowboys do the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"); Fandango, a quiz program testing contestants on their knowledge of country trivia. Unlike MTV, which is essentially a video jukebox featuring rock video clips, the Nashville Network has a menu of original programming along the lines...
Allis, who appeared in the movie "Race for the Yellow Jersey" in the early 1970s said yesterday that cycling is a hard sport to film, adding. "The bikers go faster than the camera truck so it is difficult to catch the action on film...
During the filming, Robin Petgrave, an extra from Watertown, was hit by the camera truck and suffered a leg laceration but no broken bones. An ambulance bought him to Massachusetts General Hospital...
Like a scene out of an adventure film, the tank truck rumbles to a stop at the frontier checkpoint, churning up a cloud of dust. A border guard comes out to check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They...