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...here is the paradox of decoupling. On the one hand, Islamist terrorism has imposed a huge transaction tax on the global economy; just try to put a price tag on millions of hours wasted by passengers waiting at security, on container and cargo controls, on cumbersome border checks, on the expansion of police and intelligence personnel - not to speak of the nonmonetary costs of civil liberties curtailed. On the other hand, globalization just gallops along. "We told you so," hard-core practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem...
...Then Gates's party climbed on a slate-gray C17 flown by an Air Force reserve unit from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. C17s are the low-slung, fat-bellied high-performance cargo aircraft that move everything the U.S. government needs moved, from presidential limos to Humvees. Today, their load was the Secretary of Defense and his straphangers. The plane has a massive interior space, with small canvas seats along the sidewalls for crew and most travelers. But parked square in the middle of the plane's floor on this trip was the Pentagon's "Silver Bullet," actually...
...taking rickety local boats or squeezing onto impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up with Silolona, www.silolona.com-a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes for centuries...
...impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up[an error occurred while processing this directive] with Silolona, www.silolona.com - a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes for centuries...
...final episode proved that—even if he did end up being the loser at Olympus fashion week—he definitely wins the “most unnecessarily literalist” award. His “Street Safari” collection actually featured standard safari gear, like cargo pants and jumpsuits, in neon “street” colors. Besides the general ugliness of the clothes, the collection blatantly ignored the fact that almost all the settings that could reasonably allow the wearing of safari items—going on safaris, for instance—also make...