Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of sweeping beams, the rival British MLS uses a sequence of signals broadcast along arrays of vertical and horizontal antennas. Just as a passenger on a railroad station platform hears a high-pitched whistle as the train approaches and a low-pitched one after it passes by, the approaching aircraft's computer senses an increase in frequency of the radio signals from the horizontal antennas when the aircraft is on one side of the electronic funnel's center line. When it is on the other, a drop in frequency occurs. A similar Doppler shift...
...past two years. Carter specifically called on high executives to freeze their own salaries and bonuses as a kind of anti-inflationary example to the troops. He added that the Council on Wage and Price Stability will begin a series of meetings with executives in the steel, paper, aluminum, railroad and other industries to formulate goals for wage-price boosts...
...Haneda. They also worry about flight safety. Narita has only one 13,000-foot runway, which is periodically subjected to severe crosswinds. Even the jet-fuel handling system has been complicated by the disorders. Unable to acquire land for an underground pipeline, airport managers must transport fuel by railroad tank car. Because the protestors have tried to blow up at least one train, shipments move under heavy police guard...
...William-made much of the world theirs. Building on the medium-size fortune left them by Meyer, a Swiss Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico, diamonds in the Congo...
Billboards on the highways leading to town proclaim that Texarkana is TWICE AS NICE because it is two cities in one, but half as nice might be more accurate. An overgrown railroad junction and manufacturing town, it squats on the state line where the north Texas plains lap at the Arkansas hills. State Line Avenue, which divides the two Texarkanas, is a garish neon strip with honky-tonks and liquor outlets on the Arkansas side facing fast-food and, religious book stores on the dry Texas side. The region's wooded terrain makes it an appealing hiding place...