Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course the strain has been very great. One of these days I am going to take a gun and go and shoot, but don't tell the environmentalists. One time I shot a kudu bull. By the time I returned from the game reserve and landed at the airport, there was a demonstration. "You are a murderer! You are a murderer!" I am going to go to the bush and rest...
With its glass-walled atrium and skywalk, marble-walled terminal and soaring, Teflon-spired roof mimicking the peaks of the nearby Rockies, the brand-new Denver International Airport, the nation's largest, would be a prize for most cities. But there was no joy in the Mile-High City last week as Mayor Wellington Webb summoned reporters to his city-hall office to announce an indefinite delay in the airport's opening. To begin operations prematurely with a malfunctioning baggage system, the mayor warned, could be "disastrous...
...announcement was another blow for airport boosters smarting from three earlier postponements, snafus and design changes that have put the gargantuan project, bigger than Manhattan, seven months behind schedule and boosted the cost by hundreds of millions. It left them wondering if the $3.2 billion project -- the nation's first big new airport in 20 years -- was jinxed. Cynics who have long questioned the need for such an extravagant facility chuckled that D.I.A. should be renamed D.O.A. -- dead on arrival...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...
...disgorging clothes from suitcases. Others were knocked off the rails, jammed or mysteriously failed to appear when summoned. A Continental official, taking in the spectacle, pronounced it "sad." Glitches in the software seemed to be the culprit, but the larger challenge was the immensity of fully automating an entire airport's baggage system, something never attempted on such a scale. "There's no question that it works. We just need more testing time," insisted Gene Di Fonso, president of BAE Automated Systems, the builder...