Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that an ancient curse has settled over the hallways of NBC News, but staff members at the network's newsmagazine show Dateline could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. After last February's embarrassment of having to apologize -- on air -- for faking a fire in a segment on General Motors truck safety, they endured a public pillorying that led to the resignation of NBC News president Michael Gartner and three Dateline producers. Hope was widespread at the network that the arrival of new president Andrew Lack and a complete review of the show's reportorial methods would put all that behind...
...both in dollars and distance. Commodities such as grain, forest products and coal are still the underpinning of the rails, but railways are nibbling more into consumer products such as Nikes and Chevrolets. Rails transport two-thirds of the new cars from factories to dealers and piggyback 6.5 million truck trailers a year...
...Chicago offices of the Santa Fe, they will tell you that "the engine of our growth for the next several years" is going to be intermodal traffic, which means the use of truck trailers and special containers that can be easily exchanged between rail and truck chassis. Santa Fe and the giant trucking concern of J.B. Hunt Transport, in Lowell, Arkansas, pioneered the modern strategic alliances between trains and trucks, which used to be mortal enemies in the marketplace. Increased rail efficiency, rising truck costs and as much as 100% driver turnover a year in trucking drove the two industries...
...outdoor setting had disadvantages as well. I was in fact surprised at how uncontrolled the environment seemed to be. In the first movement of the Mozart, a siren began to blare at a very inopportune time in the soloists' duet. In the second movement, the grinding of a large truck, headlights visible through the trees, disturbed the calm. In the last movement, a relatively low-flying plane blasted through the air overhead...
Wills also offered his services to people who fell behind on their car payments -- not an unusual situation in the economically depressed steel towns of Bucks County. His customers included a computer-software manufacturer, hairdressers, truck drivers, restaurant workers, anybody. One Wills crony, Albert Falls, would hang out at a local diner, the Golden Dawn, spreading the word that customers could ditch their cars in the parking lots of shopping malls -- after first placing $200 under the floor mat. The car owners were asked to wait two weeks before reporting the car stolen and collecting the insurance. By then...