Word: truckful
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...would not have been the first time Kemp's political career took a detour. He is a California boy, but not the California of Beach Boys songs and surfer girls. His father started a small trucking company and raised his four sons in the middle-class Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Kemp's persistence comes from his old man, who gradually expanded his business from one truck to 14, but his empathy comes from his mother, a onetime social worker and Spanish teacher...
...ordinance's chief goal, he said, is to stop semi-professional outfits of curbside thieves that drive around at night and pick up recyclable materials in a truck or van to sell later in bulk...
...hope he cleans up his litter and doesn't generate a lot of truck traffic in the morning," said Gifford...
...Minister Prince Sultan Wednesday finally buckled to American pressure to split the $200 million cost of relocating 4,000 U.S. troops to another spot within the kingdom. U.S. officials have wanted to move the troops as a precaution against terrorism; their proposal came in response to last month's truck bombing at a Dhahran military complex that killed 19 Americans. It was the second of two such blasts since November. The first killed five Americans. The troops will be moved to an air base that already is used by American troops in Al Kharj, about 50 miles southeat of Riyadh...
...Minister Prince Sultan Wednesday finally buckled to American pressure to split the $200 million cost of relocating 4,000 U.S. troops to another spot within the kingdom. U.S. officials have wanted to move the troops as a precaution against terrorism; their proposal came in response to last month's truck bombing at a Dhahran military complex that killed 19 Americans. It was the second of two such blasts since November. The first killed five Americans. The troops will be moved to an air base that already is used by American troops in Al Kharj, about 50 miles southeat of Riyadh...