Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U-Haul customers in the oil-producing regions of Texas and Louisiana are understandably upset. In those areas, the price of renting a truck or trailer from the do-it-yourself moving company seems to have shot out of reason. It costs $2,009, for example, to hire a 24-ft. U-Haul truck for a move from Midland, Texas, to Jacksonville. A Florida resident can rent the same truck in the opposite direction for only...
...fallen price of petroleum, says an executive for Arizona-based U-Haul, has spawned an exodus from the oil towns and caused shortages of U-Haul equipment. In May and June, the company spent $114,000 to pay people to fly to Florida and drive back 450 trucks and 1,100 trailers to Houston and New Orleans. But many Texans still wait three weeks to get one of the costly U- Haul trucks...
During a nine month stint overseas, I was constantly placed in the position of having to defend America's foreign policy. The critics were not the usual anti-U.S. protagonists. Rather, they were generally self-described supporters of the U.S. The criticism was aimed not at such traditionally deplorable foreign policy targets as U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. Instead, people were dismayed with America's way of responding to universally agreed upon trouble areas, like terrorism and international trade...
...FORMER auto-workers displaced from Michigan who are now former service workers unemployed in depressed Texas, here's a suggestion: Pack up your U-Hauls and drive even further south...
...Boho's short and tall stories have left the shelves. In West Germany, the latter-day sinner is carried by eight major publishers, and has sold a staggering 2.2 million copies, more than any American and almost any German novelist alive. What was that name again? B-U...