Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hama Rules are the only ones that apply in the Middle East, but the U.S. cannot understand them. Players obeying the Hama Rules orchestrated the 1983 suicide truck bombing attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut. Even Israel follows the rules--it invited Phalangist militia into the Lebanese towns of Sabra and Shatila and failed to stop the massacre of up to 1000 people...
Often the coroner is a funeral-home director and sometimes even a tow-truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...
Like the giant truck-trailers that carry its name across U.S. highways, Fruehauf Corp. was once an American institution. But to escape a corporate raider, Fruehauf in 1986 went private in a leveraged buyout that sent the company into a skid from which it never recovered. After borrowing $1.5 billion to repurchase its stock from shareholders, the Detroit company frantically sold one division after another to lighten its debt burden. To no avail: when it completes the sale of a subsidiary that makes wheels and brakes later this summer, Fruehauf, which had 1986 revenues of $2.7 billion and ranked among...
...embassy in Beirut is devastated when a flatbed truck loaded with 2,000 lbs. of explosives blows up, killing 17 Americans...
...suicide driver crashes an explosive-laden truck into the U.S. compound, killing 241 U.S. servicemen...