Word: dock
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this is a far cry from the days when foreign cars faced a nearly insuperable series of Japanese roadblocks between dock and dealer. The Japanese government's new open-door policy has lifted the discriminatory tax, insurance and inspection regulations that once hobbled sales. Some European car executives even speak of "positive discrimination" from an officialdom that is eager to appear receptive. For boosting imports, BMW has won an award from the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Says Peter Woods, president of Rover Japan Ltd.: "It's a great market, and we're all making massive progress...
...killed any number of people, though no one knew how many murders were real and how many tall stories. The book's opening scene describes Watson's execution by a band of his Chatham River neighbors who ambushed him from the banks as he put-putted up to his dock in one of the first motorboats folks had ever seen. Thirty-one bullets were used to lay this legend to rest...
Witnesses said the men emerged from the bathroom in handcuffs at about 1 p.m., accompanied by several police officers. The four were then marched out of the building through the loading dock area, witnesses said...
...evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...