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Poland's shipyards have a proud and venerable tradition of giving birth not only to huge cargo vessels but also to the Solidarity movement that swept the country toward democracy in the 1980s. Now the yards are being transformed by a new revolution--one rooted not in politics but in business. And their most recent product is quite an eye-catcher...
When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanal of hard drinking, drag racing, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring T shirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away from home, we're pumped up and we're horny," says a young Marine from California. "Of course it's all about...
...hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away from home, we're pumped up and we're horny," says a young Marine...
...black-and-white movie in the 1930s, with Carey Grant being chauffeured here and there by some effervescent central-casting type. But Neil isn’t Carey, and his job is hardly romantic. I have seen the president’s Oldsmobuick in Harvard Yard waiting for its cargo to finish up in his computer-less office. It is as if the president is too frail to walk to Mass Ave. without a gasoline-powered sedan chair. The president’s sedan has vanity plates that read...
...bone shaker." And Leahy has no qualms about going for the jugular. "The A380 will be a new flying experience," he says. "That's what the 747 provided in 1970." He maintains that airlines will probably install casinos, gyms or duty-free shopping in the A380's abundant cargo hold. Joseph San Pietro, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, dismisses such a notion as a flight of fancy. "You're not going to be running on a treadmill if you hit turbulence," he says...