Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the regular salaries and the perdiem allocations for the actors and crew ($50 per day), Miller estimated that the four week tour will cost $30,000 in freight and transportation charges...
Finally, after much prodding by Greenpeace, the French admitted the true nature of the freight: uranium that was being shipped to the Soviet Union to be processed into nuclear fuel and then returned to Europe for use in nuclear power plants. Belgium, Italy and Switzerland have had similar arrangements with the Soviets since 1973, when the U.S., which then had a virtual monopoly on enrichment technology, sharply raised its prices. The French recently extended their agreements with the Soviet Union through the year...
...ended the most disruptive labor crisis since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. The ten-day strike not only shut down freight operations at more than 90 ports but badly crimped the island nation's maritime exports, worth an estimated $2.5 billion a week. There was also a political cost: the strike by longshoremen, called dockers by the British, came to symbolize a summer of discontent for the 58-year-old Prime Minister. Faced with an often violent, five-month-old coal miners' strike, economic setbacks and a series of political pratfalls, Thatcher seems surrounded by trouble...
...million. When DOT tried to peddle Conrail to 20 firms last spring, the only offer came from the company's employees, who already own 15% of the road. But last week 14 bidders stepped forward to offer to buy the giant carrier, which hauls freight over 14,200 miles of route in the U.S. and Canada...
...tundra and freezing to death, so it was voted dry. Now the only way to get a drink is to order spirits in from outside. People call liquor stores that service the bush from Anchorage or Fairbanks, ask for E.S.P. (expedited small package) rate, and pay $36.75 freight for 50 lbs. of goods. Regular rate from Anchorage is $46.45 for twice as many pounds; double the jolt, slower to arrive. Perry Daniels, who drives for Fran, had ten cases of Budweiser coming in the other...