Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sugar is a factor in the slump, but the war has brought new investment to a halt and driven many businessmen to close their doors and flee the country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road and burned a cotton truck and a Jeep. The marauders posed happily for pictures. About...
...thought about it as far back as his undergraduate days at Yale in the mid-1960s. In a paper for an economics course, Smith proposed the idea of an airline that would carry small packages overnight from city to city. The airline would have its own aircraft and truck fleet, operate independently of the commercial schedules and routes and deliver its cargo anywhere in the U.S. between dusk and dawn...
Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...
...Dozier's captors might notice any unusual activity. At about 10 a.m., 28 police and unmarked cars surrounded the area. Half an hour later, members of the special antiterrorist force took up their positions in the street, ready to intervene in case of trouble. Moments later, the truck carrying the ten leatherheads pulled up behind the building, and the raid...
Details of the agreement began to leak out last week prior to ratification by workers and trucking companies. Cost of living increases have been cut from twice a year to once a year. A portion of the workers' inflation adjustment will be used to pay for health and welfare benefits; at present the trucking companies bear the entire cost. The union is also reported to have agreed in some cases to drop an expensive work rule that required longdistance truck drivers to bring freight to terminals for separate delivery by city drivers...