Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life in the fast lane is still costing West Germans dearly. The number of road accidents is appallingly high and is expected to top 2 million for the first time this year. Says Otto Schily, a member of the environmentalist Green Party: "It's not only our compassion and mourning over the thousands of dead and hundreds of thousands injured that make a speed limit imperative. It's simple economic sense too." Unlike some of its hell-driving citizenry, though, the Bonn government refuses to put its foot down -- on imposing a speed limit, that...
...maglev trains do indeed get off the tracks by the 1990s, as their builders claim, they will be bound for imminent glory. Seldom has a new leap in technology been as sorely needed. Major air-travel arteries in Europe, the U.S. and Japan are clogging up so badly so fast that the clean, fast and efficient maglev could prove to be their salvation. Not surprisingly, the race to get the maglev to the market has turned into a sprint. Equally unsurprising are the contestants: West Germany and Japan...
...same polarity as the electromagnet and, since like poles repel, the train levitates off the guideway. As the electromagnet moves faster and faster over the coils, the magnetic force becomes more powerful, raising the car to its cruising height of 4 1/2 in. Until the train is moving fast enough to lift off, it rolls on wheels that retract as soon as the maglev hits 106 m.p.h...
...decision on the Los Angeles-Las Vegas line is due in 1989, when a 16- member commission will announce whether Transrapid or a conventional rail builder will receive the contract for the fast track to the gaming tables. No American company is expected to submit a maglev plan. Although the U.S. had a maglev project under way until 1975, federal austerity measures turned off the electromagnets. At least one politician, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, wants funding for research resumed, but congressional action is not expected before next year...
Bishops from the fast-growing Anglican churches in Africa and Asia had differing views on women but united to confront the West on other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...