Word: volvo
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...administered oil-for-food program. Volcker's 623-page report, which alleges that Russian, French and Chinese companies made the lion's share of illegal payments, fingers some firms with well-known brands in the U.S., including Texaco, Siemens, DaimlerChrysler and a Belgian-based construction division of Volvo. With few exceptions, the accused have denied wrongdoing...
When we left the Lamar, we got back into the Volvo and onto the highway. Andrew put on the radio, moving between stations until he found the local country one. Soon, he was turning the volume way up, and he and Matt were belting out along with Keith, lowering the windows so the whole highway could hear them...
...side, becoming water, which becomes waves, which unfold away even faster than the green, and you feel like you just might reach that horizon, because—look—now the trucks are getting off at that exit, and Andrew is pressing down on the gas, and the Volvo is moving faster. Everything seems possible, and there is no need to worry why you are there, because, like that saying goes, there you are—and anyway, soon you’ll be gone...
...touch down in the land of the De-elta blues… I was walking in Memphis!” Sitting in the driver’s seat, Andrew looked out his window, embarrassed; a baseball game had just ended, and happy fans were passing the Volvo in droves. “Hold on,” he said to Matt. “I’ve gotta roll up my window first...
...occasional presidential nominee. At best, a handful of members of Matt and Andrew’s generation with the means and the balls to drop everything and drive will suck up their pride and join the silver-haired crowds. Most likely, however, they will not arrive in a 1999 Volvo, but on a campaign bus. They might not even set foot in the cities. They might just look out the window of Air Force...