Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truck left Harvard early yesterday morning carrying the bones of 1,912 members of the Pueblo tribe of American Indians...
Whether out of genuine green-heartedness or just good p.r. instincts, Ford is putting its foot on the environmental accelerator. The world's second largest car company announced Monday it would one-up governmental regulations and voluntarily reduce light-truck and SUV emissions beyond what President Clinton and the EPA require. They'll even eat the $100-per-vehicle cost themselves, allowing soccer moms and rappers everywhere to continue to tower over the road without poisoning the air any more than the rest...
...swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING OFFICE BELL signs or steering onto...
...asked question about RSIs is one of origins. Why haven t we heard of it before? Dr. Coley answers that RSIs are not new. In fact, "cumulative stress disorders," as he calls them, have been "well-known in a few professions for a long time. Meatpackers, as well as truck drivers and seamstresses, have had to deal with RSIs for years. The best known among those trades was carpal tunnel syndrome, an inflammation of the nerves in the forearm that often resulted from strenuous work with heavy vibrations-something along the lines of working a jackhammer. Only now that everybody...
...ally in this campaign--Frito-Lay, the Dallas-based subsidiary that is to snacks what Coke is to sodas. Frito accounts for two-thirds of Pepsi's sales and profits, and it is one of the most efficient companies in the world at getting products to retail via its truck routes. In the past, Pepsi did little to leverage Frito's commanding position as America's premier snack company. Now it intends to use Frito's muscle as a wedge for all PepsiCo products...