Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whole industries have sprung up to service the markets on the left. Printers illicitly run off copies of scarce books, while entire hidden factories make jeans and cosmetics. Truck Drivers Nikolai Butko and Alexander Konovalov developed a very elaborate triangular trade from the Caucasus Mountain city of Krasnodar near the Black Sea. They picked up purloined steel from a state factory, delivered it to government farms in exchange for off-market tomatoes, grapes and peas, and then sold the produce in Siberia, where fresh vegetables were in short supply...
...Soviets are already suffering the first symptoms of the coming crunch. Gasoline prices have doubled during the past two years, to roughly $1.25 per gal. Plans to expand car production beyond the present million-a-year level have been shelved; talk of building a second large automobile and truck factory has ceased; and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign flights arrive, jets of Aeroflot, the national airline, no longer use their own engines to taxi into takeoff position; to save fuel, they are towed...
...truck driver and a government worker who died when her only son was ten, William ("Smokey") Robinson was a kid who spent his candy money on music books but figured that the future would be brighter if he followed a more practical bent. He thought about dentistry, considered electrical engineering, "but between high school and college I met Berry Gordy." Smokey and four cronies from Detroit's North End-Warren Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Ron White and Claudette Rogers-formed the Miracles, and Smokey left college during the first semester. The name of the debut Miracles single could have...
After hours of skirmishes with police, tensions ran high outside the high school in the "colored" (mixed race) Cape Town suburb of Elsie's River. Bands of youths pelted passing cars with rocks. Then someone threw an unlit gasoline bomb at a truck driven by two white plain-clothes policemen. Two other officers in camouflage riot gear suddenly sprang from the rear. Without warning they fired directly into the crowd, wounding six and killing two 15-year-old colored students...
...sealing the deadly stuff deep within the earth, few people seem willing to live on or near such a "hot" burial ground. Now scientists are suggesting another idea: banish the nuclear-age garbage to far-off space, using NASA'S shuttle as a kind of celestial dump truck when it finally flies, probably early next year...