Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Fire Department sent a full first alarm company, including two ladder trucks, three engine companies and a heavy rescue truck, according to Acting Deputy Chief Stephen J. Boyle...
...billion. Even at that,TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodburysays the dollar figures look like a "lowball estimate" because the government has yet to decide exactly how it will clean up a good amount of the waste. "Are they going to bury it or are they going to truck it to states that will take it?" asks Woodbury, pointing out that "nobody wants it at the moment...
...Brien and Sons, Inc., a localconstruction company, decorates its pick-up truckswith a clover painted on each side. "J.J. O'Brienwon't let a truck leave his yard until it has ashamrock painted on its side," comments oneworker...
...ground stations. The National Security Agency's supercomputers can sort through intercepted phone calls with lightning speed. Even clandestine agents overseas can have instant access to CIA officials in the U.S. by using cellular phones. But until last year, the White House had to depend on the "pizza truck " for all this intelligence--even during a fast-breaking crisis. And the pizza truck--the agency's nickname for the delivery van bearing secret reports from the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters--often became snarled in downtown Washington traffic...
...however, the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have entered the cyberspace age--to the benefit of the White House and the demise of the pizza truck. Last December the CIA and the Pentagon began full operation of Intelink, a worldwide computer network that has borrowed much of its technology from Internet, the global network that links universities, research institutions, individuals and commercial computer services. An exclusive club, Intelink has 35 intelligence organizations feeding it and so far more than 3,000 users, all with secret or top-secret security clearances to tap into the system. More important, Intelink allows...