Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first you don't succeed, then cheat like crazy. That seems to be the philosophy behind the making of an ad for Volvos. Print and TV commercials featured Bear Foot, a six-ton truck that drives over a row of cars, flattening them all -- except the Volvo. But last week the Swedish automaker withdrew the ad, admitting that the sturdy Volvo had a little help: steel posts welded to the chassis. When Volvo filmed the commercial last June in Austin, Bear Foot initially crushed everything in its path, including a Volvo. In view of 400 hired spectators, the production crew...
...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...
Alphonse L. Birtelle, a Peabody resident, said $2000 worth of power tools were stolen from her husband's truck last week...
Later that night, Ray encountered some "really, really sleazy guys" who offered to show her their truck. Ray declined the invitation, answering that she had been driving a truck all night...
...says she considers the Tonka truck incident good luck, since it allowed her to avoid a potentially dangerous situation. After that night, she says, the name caught...