Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anything, the question is whether the cuts will prove enough to keep the News there. Says newspaper analyst John Morton: "Maxwell has made a very risky move." During the strike, which led to truck burnings, beatings and intimidation of news dealers, the unions so effectively discouraged sales of the paper that the Tribune Co. practically gave it away. It let hundreds of hawkers, many of them homeless, buy stacks of 100 copies for $2.50 to peddle at 35 cents each...
...compositions are often highly ambiguous, as in Charlestown Glassman. What this picture depicts is not quickly apparent. Only after inspection does one realize that half the picture is in fact a reflection in a broken mirror and that what we see above is the truck upon which that mirror hangs...
...ambiguity is heightened by blocking off the people's faces, one cut off by the edge of the mirror and another obscured by a railing on the truck...
According to a contemporaneous article in the Washington Post, the accident killed 17-year-old Amy Edgerton, a friend and passenger in a black Toyota truck driven by Kerrigan. In the article, Capt. Ronald Miner, Fairfax county police traffic division commander, speculated that alcohol was a factor in the accident...
...commanders had too often proved unimaginative and bureaucratic, their troops uninspired and all too frequently undisciplined. After the fall of Saigon, still more fiascoes fairly shouted of Pentagon ineptitude. An attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran broke down in the desert in 1980. In 1983 a terrorist's truck bomb killed 241 American servicemen, forcing the U.S. to beat an embarrassing retreat from its peacekeeping role in Lebanon...