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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known that it was considering a $355 million expansion of an assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, to build sport-utility vehicles. The decision would hinge on the size of tax breaks granted by the city government. After all, two other cities with GM truck plants--Shreveport, La., and Linden, N.J.--were vying for the new facility. At least that is what GM officials hinted to Moraine officials. And that is what the local newspaper, the Dayton Daily News, duly reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...what a job it did with Glenn. When was the last time the country stopped, riveted to the TV, anxiously awaiting a launch? When was the last time television sets were wheeled into classrooms? When was the last time kids cheered our national space truck making yet another haul? Most people were surprised to learn that the Glenn flight is the shuttle's 92nd. Except, sadly, for Challenger, who can remember any of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened to Destiny? | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Closing time. Oops! Missed the last truck home. Guess it's time to find a warm, twin, extra-long bed to crash in. [Pause.] Just kidding! Do not have to go home with first sweaty, overweight beer-guzzler who approaches. Harvard women don't have to do that shit...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee, | Title: JUST A SQUIRREL TRYIN' TO GET A NUT | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...Before, they never even had a table set up,"chimed in his wife, Pat M. Callinan, noddingtowards the table of coffee and cookies sittingnext to the truck full of campaign signs...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bay State Readies Ballot Boxes | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...market remains more hotly contested than the one for sport-utility vehicles, which account for 18% of all U.S. car and truck sales. Chrysler has spent more than $2.65 billion to expand the interior and improve the ride of its new Jeep Grand Cherokee, which will cost about $250 less than the 1998 model because features like the CD player will no longer be extra. Chrysler hopes to overtake the Ford Explorer as the market leader. But moving up will be tough in the increasingly crowded SUV category. Newcomers include the Lexus RX300, which competes with the Cherokee on price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger, Faster...and Cheaper | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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