Word: freight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALAND OF SHIFTLESS hobos, of freight train yards and greasy roadside lunch counters; a land of desperate losers, crooked insurance salesmen and small-time racketeers, of empty pockets and broken spirits. That was James M. Cain's America. If for Thomas Wolfe or Jack Kerouac The Road led to freedom, for Cain it was some kind of a prison, a vast, inescapable refuse pile for the hungry and homeless. The characters in Cain's books, most of them drifters and box-car bums, search desperately for a piece of anything to call home. And when they find...
...that they will fail. "There's always a place for God," Holliwell asserts. "There is some question as to whether He's in it." This issue is not normally the stuff of espionage. Those readers who like their suspense neat may be unhappy with the freight Stone has added: nihilism, a cosmos that is indifferent if not actively malevolent, a philosophical puzzle that even death may not solve. A Flag for Sunrise takes a number of giant steps beyond the genre it imitates...
Those firms that continue to suggest retail prices may also contribute to future price increases by adding freight costs to prices printed on book jackets...
Archy is not alone either. After the race, he and another sprinter, Frank Dunne become "mates" and head off to hop a freight train to Perth, where the underage Archy hopes to slip into the ranks of the Light Horse cavalry regiment. Dunne, as portrayed by Mel Gibson, provides a good foil for the golden-looking and piously good Archy. Sly but good natured, Dunne is an Irishman with little interest in fighting someone else's war but whom Archie finally cajoles into enlisting with remarks like "You have a greater responsibility to go...you're (big Australian twang...
...freight remains scarcely affected by the new restrictions, since cargo flights normally operate in the relatively quiet hours of the night. Essential military flights retain top priority. General aviation, which includes private traffic ranging from two-seaters to large corporate jets, has been cut back the most. The FAA is allowing its control centers to accept only about 35% of the previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing...