Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's largest auto company had operating income of $109 million in the third quarter before a $2.1 billion charge for plant closings pushed it into the red. GM attributed its latest problems to slack demand that has led the company to reduce its fourth-quarter car and truck production in the U.S. and Canada by nearly 17% compared with the same period a year...
...Even if Saddam's scientists succeeded in using the salvaged core to make a bomb, most U.S. experts believe it would be so bulky that it could not be launched by any missile or bomber Iraq possesses, and would thus have to be delivered to its detonation site by truck. Moreover, since Iraq has only enough fissionable material to produce one bomb, it could not test it to make sure it would work...
...decide whether that "previously owned" car in the dealer's lot is a lemon? Call Auto Critic and have it dispatch a mobile inspection unit to check out the used car, van or truck in question. For $54 to $69, a certified mechanic will spend about 45 min. running the vehicle through a 92-item checklist, which includes the obvious, like turn signals and wiper blades, and the not-so-obvious, like axle seals and cover gaskets. The mechanic will even take the car on a test drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider...
...made from it, is traveling with his wife Kit (Debra Winger) and an upper-class twit of a friend (Campbell Scott). He lands in Algeria, a hot, arid country where each hotel is more primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other...
Chickens typically travel a filthy path from the farm through the slaughterhouse. Stuffed 10 or 12 to a cage on the truck to the processing plant, they eat one another's germ-laden excrement and spread it on their feathers and skin. At the plant, the birds move rapidly along a disassembly line where they are killed, dropped in scalding water, mechanically defeathered and eviscerated, and chilled in huge water tanks that usually become contaminated. "This is really no different than putting these birds in your toilet," contends Gerald Kuester, a microbiologist with the Public Citizen advocacy group...