Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...
...resort owners. One bumper sticker reads, KILLINGTON: WHERE THE AFFLUENT MEET THE EFFLUENT. Killington officials and local developers are not amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass, a Killington carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal violated his right to free speech. In another action, Killington has filed a libel suit against the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus newspaper for publishing a cartoon showing two skiers riding a ski lift carrying toilet plungers instead...
Sixty percent of the monikers stem from mergers, acquisitions or divestitures. Republic Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel merged into LTV Steel. Other conversions occur because executives are looking for a new style. Zenith Radio sought to be up-to-date by becoming Zenith Electronics. International Harvester, a truck manufacturer that was near bankruptcy two years ago, plans to change its name this year. It may become Navistar, evoking an image of starry skies instead of cornfields. A heavy truck by any other name, however, is unlikely to be sweeter...
...make deliveries because you can't get your truck in and out," he said. "People just aren't going to walk around with flowers...
Still, the Soviets were taking no chances. On Friday they evacuated more than 100 embassy dependents and nonessential staff to Damascus, where they were to be flown back to Moscow. The bus and truck convoy that transported the frightened Soviets was guarded by heavily armed Lebanese Communist and Druze militiamen. A well-informed source in Beirut said that the Soviets may have trained some Druze fighters and now have a sizable KGB station in Mukhtara, the mountain home of Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt...