Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asking for cooperation, a team effort to save lives," he says. "I don't want to be melodramatic, but there's nothing more pitiful than seeing someone's brains spreadout out under a truck just for not thinking just for being stupid...
...friends and supporters, about 50,000 more than last year. The Reagans apparently acquired some new friends on the road to the President's recent 49-state electoral triumph. The First Couple have even decided on a gift for each other: a new pickup truck for the ranch. It may have been the President's second choice, actually. Asked by reporters what he wanted from Santa Claus, he responded, "Minnesota would have been nice...
...face values. "It's an attitude," notes Mark Searcy, co-founder of Interface, a California concern that expects to peddle $6 million worth of men's skin-care preparations this year. "Ten years ago, it was sissy to use a blow dryer. Now policemen and truck drivers use them." The new adventurers in the skin trade see it as an obvious outgrowth of, or perhaps they would prefer to say a smooth supplement to, the health-and-fitness craze...
Assume that at the basic minimum the process of diminishing requires a state of grief. Is it really possible to grieve for any person's death? A year ago in Lebanon, a fanatic drove a truck bomb into the Marine compound at Beirut International Airport, killing 241. We responded to those deaths, all right; Americans grieving for Americans. The truck driver also died in the explosion. Any grief left over for him? What about all the Lebanese who have been dropping in the streets for a decade? Feel those deaths, do we? We say yes sincerely, but we only...
...implications of comparable worth, the long-term benefit for workers is negative. If a company is forced to pay secretaries at the rate of computer operators, then the company may well attempt to rid themselves of the secretaries altogether. If a warehouse must pay forklift drivers the equivalent of truck drivers, then it will attempt to do without forklift drivers. In this age of automation, much can change. If a business can no longer determine the value of their employees given its budget, then it will automate at the employees' expense. For the value of many workers to their company...