Word: move
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Troubles have been unending. After much maneuvering to get NBC to move its headquarters into what Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
...themselves against liability for any repair costs in case their vehicles were damaged. But many major credit-card companies now offer such coverage to their cardholders at no cost whenever they charge a rental. As a result, more and more consumers decline the pricey waivers. In the most sweeping move so far, American Express began offering the collision coverage last week to its more than 11 million green-card holders. The American Express action, says Joseph Russo, a Hertz vice president, "begins the de facto elimination of the CDW by car-rental companies...
...Texas airline will deploy many of the jets at its two principal hub cities: Kansas City and Orlando. The carrier last year bought 16 Kansas City airport gates from ailing Eastern Airlines. Braniff also aims to move into other airports neglected by the major carriers, but is keeping mum about which ones...
...discussed making the ruble a convertible currency. That would undoubtedly involve a massive devaluation of the Soviet currency, which is worth $1.60 at the official rate and about 20 cents on the black market. More recently authorities have said it will be at least 15 years before such a move occurs. Some Western analysts have suggested that Moscow should spend some of its estimated $80 billion in gold reserves on consumer products from the West. But Soviet officials have long held that any dependence on the West would be a dangerous precedent...
Virtually instantaneous travel leads to the idea of wormhole as time machine. If it were somehow possible to move one end of a wormhole at nearly the speed of light, general relativity dictates that time at that end would slow down, and that portion of the tunnel would then be younger than the other end. Anything moving from the faster-aging end of the wormhole to the slower would essentially go backward in time. The mode of travel, however, could be nothing like the mechanical time machine, complete with saddle, envisioned by H.G. Wells. It is hard to conceive...