Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drove along a highway one day with a few of my soldiers, two Arab men pulled alongside out truck and waved for us to pull over. We pulled our truck to one side of the road behind their car. When we got out, one of the two Arabs came forward and hugged me saying, "Thank you! Thank you! Because of you, we are free...
...better, is a mildly depressed, mildly humorous man named Mack (Kevin Kline). The process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous our grip on normality...
...that he would run for the presidency of the Teamsters Union two years ago, most labor experts considered the reform candidate a do-gooder with little chance of winning. A virtual unknown outside ; the New York City borough of Queens, where he heads a local chapter representing 6,600 truck drivers, Carey did not have the support of regional union officials. Moreover, his rivals outspent...
...Jones never went past the sixth grade. "I can write my name and my address and stuff like that, but I cannot spell hardly anything," he says. He now lives in Virginia and has been searching for work around the region for eight months. Recently he drove his pickup truck five hours to Tennessee to try for a job on a road crew. At the construction office he was asked to fill out an application form, but it was beyond his ability. So he took the form and retraced his five-hour drive back to his wife Wanda...
...than 100 changes in proposed regulations for carrying out the act, changes that top EPA officials say undercut the law. The most controversial proposed change would allow polluters to unilaterally increase their emissions if states ignore a waiver request for more than seven days. "You could drive a big truck through some of those holes," said a top EPA official...