Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fujita Scale of tornado intensity, an F5 is the worst measurement that can be registered. The twister that hit Jarrell was one of those, with winds estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm...
...collected signatures from his second-grade classmates on a Sierra Club petition to oust Interior Secretary James Watt. "I thought it had something to do with electricity," he jokes. But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition. At Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors in 1994, and last spring his colleagues voted...
...government set out to prove the following: that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government, that he had spent months acquiring materials for the bomb and planning the attack, that he was the one who rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing, and that traces of explosives were found on his clothes, knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise...
...witnesses than he might have called in a hit-and-run case, and even among that small number, there was one whose testimony went terribly awry. Daina Bradley said while she looked out the window of the Murrah building on the morning of the blast, she saw a Ryder truck pull up and a man resembling the notorious John Doe No. 2 get out and run away. This is what she had said repeatedly for two years. Suddenly, though, Bradley, who lost a leg in the explosion, sank her face in her hands and said, "I need to talk...
...profitable so far. It is one measure of how deregulation has helped both the consumer and the supplier that Bell charges 2[cents] or so less a mile for hauling than when he entered the business in the '80s. "Deregulation has taken $50 billion out of the cost of trucking services from 1979 to 1997," says Donohue. "As a result, we are spending 15% less to move the nation's goods by truck...