The car's front and rear windscreens were smashed and all the tyres slashed before the gang ran off.

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The poor who clean windscreens and sell pirate CDs in Mexico City include a growing number of elderly people.

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Both crossings were closed earlier in the day when ice began falling from the top of bridge structures onto cars and smashing windscreens.

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Two windscreens have been cracked on vehicles passing under the Norton Road bridge at Baldock, police said, with people seen throwing large snowballs.

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Sheriff Robert McCreadie warned Grant he would have to pay the total bill for the damage he caused to the cars by smashing their windscreens.

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One, by Edward Lazear of Stanford University Business School, found that workers installing car windscreens increased their productivity when they were put on piece rates rather than on fixed wages.

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Guernsey Police have asked drivers to be careful, ensure their windscreens are clear, make sure they put their lights on and leave plenty of distance between any vehicles in front of them.

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Ironically, it is the second wave, the balseros, who are behaving like most Latino immigrants: washing windscreens and dishes, or hanging round construction sites, in the hope of blending seamlessly into their new country.

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His first U.S. effort is full of bold, broad comic book strokes -- some of them pleasingly original, like a car chase through a cornfield, the husks of corn thudding against the windscreens like oversized bugs.

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