Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...
...cream colored panel truck, the same one used in last Sunday's first round of direct talks, yesterday arrived shortly before 9 a.m. and was parked with its back door facing the embassy. The rear doors were removed to allow guerrillas inside the embassy to observe the talks...
...interviewer, for example, can ask about physical handicaps if the job involves manual labor, but not otherwise. The level of English language proficiency and educational requirements can be set for a secretary but not for a truck driver. Age can be specified, but only if an employer is seeking, for example, a child fashion model...
...residents fled San Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...
...White House spies keep an eye on proceedings, planting Watergate seeds [the Canuck letter, et. al] as part of Nixon's sabotage program. Ed "Big Ed" Muskie, the Maine senator with "a free ride" to the Democratic nomination, breaks down on the back of a flatbed truck, flustered by Manchester Union-Leader publisher Generalissimo William Loeb. George McGovern, the soft-spoken South Dakotan teacher and World War II bomber pilot, reminds enough voters that Vietnam hasn't gone away to keep Muskie under 50 per cent and get his own candidacy rolling. Nixon? He's too engrossd with Peking, Chou...