Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge woman is suing Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for an undisclosed amount more than $25,000 in damages for injuries resulting from an accident two years ago with a truck driven by an HSA employee...
...High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking, "I am supposed to direct this operation." At week's end a 10-truck convoy had been waved through by Serbs, but still could not get to besieged Gorazde over shell- cratered roads. Then Bosnian Serbs and Izetbegovic found separate, and rather fanciful, reasons to boycott a new round of peace negotiations that were supposed to begin Friday at U.N. headquarters in New York City, though...
...software to calculate value-added tax, which is now done in-house. "The single market has merely pushed the border inland," he said. "Brussels bureaucrats want to know how many kilos of this, how many crates of that. Before, I needed half an hour to do paperwork for one truck picking up produce in Paris. Today a specialist needs a full hour for each truck...
Preparations for the 15-second scene began at 3 p.m., when a truck with the motto "There's no business like snow business" painted on its side started to spray shaved ice in order to make fake snow...
...PICTURES ARE EVERYTHING. The firm that NBC hired staged just two crashes. GM trucks do not, of course, explode in half of all sideways collisions, or there wouldn't be many left on the road. So the consultants helped things along. As GM later demonstrated, the truck that did burn -- apparently because it had an ill-fitting gas-tank cap, made for a different truck -- ignited for only about 15 sec. But to ensure that its images were graphic, NBC used tightly edited shots in which the flames looked much worse...