Word: freights
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This kind of thing is going to have Grime purists throwing themselves in front of trains (freight, not passenger). While it’s a stock reaction for devotees of any genre to accuse those finding crossover success of betraying their roots, but Sov might deserve the complaint...
...army had soldiers. In the 1990s, the government split it into three companies--Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post and the Postbank--and floated them on the stock market. The most successful, Deutsche Post, grew into a global logistics company. Again, the critical expansion was in the U.S., where it bought freight company...
Still, the biggest problem is traffic jams: more than 14,000 ships transit the canal each year, stretching its outdated capacity. And a growing share of that freight can't cross Panama at all. By 2010, the number of post-Panamax vessels in the global commercial fleet is expected to jump 74%, to about 700, and by 2011, they will probably account for half the world's oceangoing commercial-cargo capacity, according to the World Shipping Council in Washington. The expansion design, approved by Panama's Congress last spring, would dig a new approach channel about five miles long just...
...security against liquid explosives, but such steps would do nothing about the fact that most of the cargo shipped on passenger planes goes entirely uninspected--for bombs or anything else. DHS relies instead on a program it calls Known Shipper, which leaves it up to air carriers and freight forwarders to screen regular cargo customers so they can load boxes onto planes with only spot inspections. The Government Accountability Office warned last October that the industry isn't adequately investigating shippers. But the Bush Administration and the airlines, which make about $17 billion a year from cargo on passenger planes...
...occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance." Dirty words or no, Lenny's real crime was criticizing organized religion in cities where many of the police, prosecutors and judges were conservative Catholics. Cops threatened nightclub owners who booked Lenny. Two owners had their liquor licenses suspended. Another, when Lenny performed at his place, was tried...