Word: forklift
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...container ship from Colombia docked during the night at Karachi, Pakistan. Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
...keeping pace with the soldiers: the technical term for material with no forwarding address is "frustrated cargo." This makes for frustrated soldiers, who must master the time-honored military art of swapping what they have for what they need: long underwear, cigarettes, air filters, a forklift. The local Saudi merchants are not much help. Soldiers complain that prices double and triple between visits to the small local shops. A pack of Snickers bars has jumped from $6 to $15 -- the tax, say the shopkeepers, for doing business in the line of fire...
...have been dug by North Korea under the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two republics since 1953. So when South Korea's Hyundai Construction Co. announced that it was making a donation to North Korea, the nature of the benevolence raised some eyebrows: a bulldozer, an excavator, a forklift, a loader and a dump truck. The North Koreans passed on the offer...
...created by companies with fewer than 500 employees, small businesses suffer as severely as their corporate brethren. Bill Gregory, who owns Gregory Forest Products Sawmill in Glendale, Ore. (pop. 870), did not know he had a problem on his hands until one of his 400 employees noticed that a forklift operator took forever to count loads of lumber. A bit of digging disclosed that about 10% of the mill's workers needed help developing proficiency in math and English. So, at a cost of $15,000, Gregory asked the nearby Umpqua Community College to provide , instruction. Says...
...seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly; one thing Bush is not, no matter how many forklift trucks he is photographed driving, is a man of the people...