Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already there have been many cases where managers have felt compelled to remove AIDS sufferers from jobs because other employees have demanded it. When Paul Cronan, a twelve-year veteran phone installer for New England Telephone, revealed his illness in May 1985, co-workers refused to use the truck he had driven, demanded that the bathroom he used be disinfected and threatened to kill Cronan if he returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled...
...Janitor: Brentwood "aka Beej aka BJ" Martin Lunch at Grendels Editor: Dahlia "think conservative" Weinman Four-Color Advertising Manager: Mark "Please, take my business card" Diker Cadillac Editor: Mark "pimpmobile" Segel East Asian Editor: Tai "Moo Bernstein" Hah Hospital Administrator: Pat "Can I show you my gallbladder?" Sorrento Food Truck Operator: Brian "forever Magic" Byrne
This sensibility begins, perhaps, with Cameron's willingness to let his wife "delete" what she calls his "truck driver" language and their desire to make their action films "intense, uncompromising, but with the amount of gore restrained and deaths inferred offstage -- even those of people you'd like to see torn limb from limb," as he puts it. It proceeds through the fact that in both The Terminator and Aliens, evil is symbolized by nonhuman characters; it continues with the demonstration, in both pictures, that "it's more interesting to see a normal person in abnormal circumstances than a highly...
...Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died, and that on still nights when the moon is full and there is a lull in traffic, you can hear the wail...
What the explorer did not know was that cabbies routinely pilot the lost through Boston streets. Floyd is a truck driver who has been delivering Russell Stover candy to the same warehouse in Boston for 15 years. "Tried it on my own a couple of times," he says. "I figured, hell, I can deliver in Nashville which is impossible, I'll soon have Boston in my head, but I'd get to one of them damn rotaries and on to another, rear back and find myself at the first again. And then there was always that same underpass that...