Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agency into insolvency. HEAF's trouble was caused primarily by its heavy commitment to trade-school students, the group with the highest default rate. More than one-third of HEAF's loans were made to students attending for-profit institutions that promised careers in fields from hairdressing to truck driving...
...Buck Rogers," quip congressional aides), the agency opted for the Space Transportation System, the shuttle program. Lobbying the White House, the Defense Department and Congress intensively, NASA portrayed the shuttle as all things to all people. The winged craft would be reusable and thus economical, a safe, reliable space truck with many different roles. In as many as 60 flights a year, it would loft or capture satellites and patrol the skies for the military. Furthermore, NASA assured the White House, it could lead to the direct employment of 8,800 people...
...competition is tough, but the Red Team has the edge in both cunning and sheer gall. It kidnaps a member of the Orange Team and delivers her, bound and gagged, aboard a clanging fire truck to the opposition. What a bold move! What a great promo! The playing fields of Lauder University have not witnessed its like...
...money. After all, a manhole cover only commands at most $6 as scrap. Yet when the case was solved last week, that theory proved right. Most of the missing covers turned up at a scrap-metals yard, and cops collared two culprits, dubbed the Manhole Men, with a pickup truck loaded with more manhole covers. They were charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property...
...witness likened the enormous ball of fire to a nuclear explosion. A truck driver thought it looked as if "a rocket just took off." Shortly before midnight on the day after the Fourth of July, a devastating explosion leveled a block-square section of the 564-acre Atlantic Richfield chemical plant in Channelview, Texas, east of Houston. At least 17 workers died. The blast occurred while crews were working near tanks that hold petrochemical residues and waste water from the plant...