Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hilliard, a manufacturing engineer at the Japanese-owned Nissan truck plant in Smyrna, Tenn., has no doubt that the Japanese unfairly keep out American goods. Nissan has sent him to Japan three times for training, where, he reports, "I saw very few American products on the market there, whereas here Japanese products are all over the place." Consequently, he believes the "U.S. Government is justified" in placing restrictions on Japanese imports. Yet Hilliard has praise for the management methods of his employer. Nissan's profits in Smyrna are down, he says, because "parts from Japan cost much more than they...
...with Van Gogh's madness; it is the embodied sign of what all persons of cultural pretension long ago learned to call his "last outburst of frenzied genius," or words to that effect. Thus, apart from its merits as a painting, it has the sentimental pull of a truck. Against this must be set its reduced condition. The high chrome yellow paint that Van Gogh used was unstable, and it has darkened to ocher and brown, so that the whole chromatic key of the painting is gone; the paint surface has turned callused with time and has little...
...seekers herald their arrival with windshield graffiti reading PADRE NAKED, TEQUILA TRUCK and SINK THE ISLAND. Youths have carted off street signs, & spray painted condo windows and littered the pristine beach with cans and bottles. Says Fire Department Aide Bobbye Dowda: "Ceilings are torn out. Kids dare you to run into them on the street...
...Northern Illinois University, white students in a pickup truck yelled slurs at blacks attending a speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; an unauthorized N.I.U. student magazine printed sick poetry ("O.K.,/ Look nigger,/ We are white./ White is supreme./ Jesus was white./ God is white./ All of our Presidents have been white./ Thank you God"); and swastika-decorated flyers saying NIGGERS GET OUT appeared in campus buses...
...course, new technology is always disconcerting, at least at first. At Chicago Kenworth, a heavy-truck dealer in suburban Markham, Ill., Accounting Clerk Luanna Domke shudders when she describes the arrival of the company's new Inter-Tel GX smart telephones earlier this month. Says Domke: "The first day, everyone was in a panic. People were saying, 'Oh, my God! What do I do with...