Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deregulation has encouraged new operators to enter the business, but the intense price competition has worn them down like a long, grinding upgrade. About 17,000 new trucking companies have formed since 1980, and more than 6,500 companies have failed during the same period. The newcomers have felt increasing pressure to cut costs by scrimping on safety, which has spawned fleets of so-called killer trucks with bald tires, worn brakes and bleary-eyed drivers. While most major carriers can afford adequate maintenance programs, struggling trucking companies often put worn-out rigs on the road as a calculated gamble...
...thousand students and were primarily limited to Seoul, the capital, last week's demonstrations drew crowds as large as 50,000 and flared in more than two dozen cities. In the southern port of Pusan, according to some reports, protesters burned five municipal buses and seized a garbage truck as a makeshift barricade. In Taejon a crowd of 6,000 marchers fire-bombed two police stations. On Wednesday night alone, crowds laid siege to 17 police outposts, two Democratic Justice Party district offices, and two buildings of the state-run Korean Broadcasting System...
...weeks later his world was shattered. On a highway near Wilmington, a truck collided with the family station wagon, killing his wife Neilia, 27, and daughter Naomi, 13 months. His two sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, were critically injured. Rushing back from Washington, where he had been recruiting staff, Biden considered resigning. Instead, his sister Valerie and her husband moved into his house to care for the boys, and Biden began to commute daily between Wilmington and Washington by train, 90 minutes each way. The difficult routine became so much a hallmark of his Senate career that Biden chose...
...disarray and debt. The couple found themselves facing the bleak prospect of an unwanted retirement and uncertain future. "We think that the experiences that we had are the kind of things that happen to anybody," explains Jimmy. "We tried to relate what we did to what happens to a truck driver, or anybody...
What bothered many Congressmen was that the Administration seemed to be using the military to make a symbolic diplomatic statement. Deploying sailors as peace enforcers in the gulf revived memories of the ill-conceived deployment of Marines in Beirut, which left 241 servicemen dead after a surprise truck bombing. Although it has never fought a declared war, the Reagan Administration has witnessed the loss of at least 331 servicemen since it took office...