Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Complains Don Douglas, who heads the union local at GM's Pontiac, Mich., truck plant: "We shouldn't have to pay for management's blunders." Adds Machinist Larry Self, a 16-year veteran of the union: "I don't think management is hurting as bad as they say. Why don't they go to the shareholders, and tell them they are cutting the dividend rather than take it out of the hide of the worker...
Instead, it wants the right to reopen its contract when economic conditions improve. Meanwhile, truck-fleet owners have made headway, toward changes in work rules that would allow drivers to deliver their shipments directly to customers, rather than drop them at intermediate warehouses...
...military takeover, Poles were surprised to find grocery shelves stocked with certain items, such as smoked fish and tomato juice, that had scarcely been seen for six months. "Where has it all been?" asked a woman shopper in Warsaw. A clue to that mystery was supplied by a Dutch truck driver, who had taken part in a 150-vehicle convoy to deliver donated food from Western Europe. He was directed to a Polish warehouse that he said contained "more butter than I've seen in my entire life." Poles generally welcomed the government's sudden bounty, which disappeared...
...Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, 24, a stocky artillery officer in the Egyptian army, last week told a three-judge military tribunal how he had assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade on Oct. 6. Islambuli is accused of leading the four-man hit team that jumped out of a truck during the parade and charged the reviewing stand, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades. Seven other people died in the attack, and 28 were wounded...
...Thank y'all. 'Preciate it," they would invariably say when congratulated for a good shot. "Well, I jus' try to play one hole at a time," they would slowly explain to sportswriters. No character. They composed a lumpy, mushy group of golfers, with all the sensibilities of a tow truck...