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...With a small-business guy, it's a day-to-day struggle to survive," says Larry Mocha. He is president and owner of Air Power Systems Co., a Tulsa, Okla., maker of air cylinders and other parts for trucks that his father founded in 1964. At times, Mocha recalls, he had to borrow on his personal credit card to meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking...
...helm of his simple shop as it bustles with activity two days before Thanksgiving, with customers popping in to pick up their holiday bird and employees unloading a truck and weighing turkeys in the back of the store...
...survived a more problematical journey west, struggle much more realistically for survival in Tumbleweeds. Mary Jo is fleeing an abusive marriage (her fourth), but can't quite escape her taste for sexy, damaged guys. In a film that moves with an easy, unforced pace, she settles in with a truck driver (played by director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor) who's good in bed but damply insistent on clockwork routine outside it. She has a job that matches her relationship--too much filing--and a daughter who fills her good-to-bursting heart...
...like us," Chaparro says. "They thought we were doing this to get dates." The boys on the team weren't wild about it initially either. "We thought they were trying to make us look silly," says middle linebacker Roger Sepulveda, 16. But Sepulveda, who hits like a truck, once knocked Macias out of her shoes. "And she just popped right up," he says admiringly. "I see the girls as a little better than some of the guys on the team...
...Truck driver Xavier Ocampo was charged with a misdemeanor after cracking open a roasted peanut at a Lincoln, Neb., grocery store. The nut was worth about a penny...