Word: trucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success. Then came two lucky breaks on April 4 in Evanston, a wealthy suburb of Chicago. That afternoon, two men wearing dark coats, sunglasses and fedoras stole a white van at gunpoint from the local office of Budget Rent-a-Car. Half an hour later, police spotted the truck on the campus of Northwestern University and arrested a man and a woman who were carrying pistols...
Blue-collar workers may also get their time on TV. One comedy, Hole 22, goes on below ground, where construction workers are building a subway, and two shows deal with the hilarious goings-on around the garbage truck. Garbage Is My Life may turn up on ABC, and Garbage may air on NBC. Many viewers may have an unhappy sense of déjà vu. The Silverman network also has a fondness for dogs. Here's Boomer, the saga of the world's smartest mutt, is already on the schedule, and next year it may be frolicking...
...Since then Guzmán has kept busy recording the surprisingly cheerful activities during the captives' five-week ordeal. Last week guerrillas released six more of the "non-diplomats," reducing the number of hostages to 23. Otherwise, negotiations between terrorists and the Colombian government, conducted in a panel truck outside, continued to creep along at a frustrating pace as the guerrillas persisted in their demand for the release of 28 prisoners from Colombian jails...
Firemen in gas masks shoveled debris off the track to help the liquid drain off into the pit, from which workers later pumped it into a waiting tank truck...
...part of many gay men's psychological makeup, and gives texture and meaning to a great many gay lives." Adds Anthropologist Edgar Gregersen of Queens (N.Y.) College, who studies sexual mores: "If you make your first sexual contact in a public toilet or in the back of a truck where the guy next to you may be a cop ready to arrest you or a psychopath waiting to hack off your genitals, Leather Gulch is an ideal ambience...