Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transaction is perfectly blatant. A Jordanian customs official is bribed, illegal cargo is substituted for food and medicine, a false manifest is prepared, and the truck heads for the Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons...
...little reason to add new workers. That is partly because many firms have streamlined their operations and need fewer bodies, but also because firing -- not hiring -- has become the corporate norm. While Chrysler said last week it is investing $225 million to build a new line of Dodge pickup trucks in 1993, the company noted that it plans to add just 70 new jobs as a result of the program. "We're expecting to triple truck sales, and we're looking for a return to profitability," says a senior Chrysler executive. "Life is going to get a lot better...
With that, a full-scale international relief effort got under way. Almost 100 tons of emergency supplies from the U.S. arrived in the first two days. Giant cargo planes also flew in from Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and other countries. The food and medicine were then trucked -- under Canadian guard -- into the desperate city of 400,000 people. In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said American air and naval forces would be available if they are needed to protect the relief flights or future truck convoys...
...gangs. "Each one is a mini crime wave, and together they are a major crime wave," says Reiner. Opinions vary on what role gangs played in the riots, but there is no doubt that they were involved. Several gang members have been charged in the near fatal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Last week 22 suspected members of a West L.A. gang were arrested on charges of looting an estimated $80,000 worth of high- tech equipment from a Korean-owned stereo store during the upheaval at the end of April. "Were the gangs involved?" says Reiner. "Of course...
...didn't have much choice about it this year. I woke up one morning to finish my junior essay and, as I leaned over to turn on my computer, I noticed a truck in the middle of the Quad. When I put on my glasses, I saw that it wasn't a truck. It was a tank. Seriously...