Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollander, former president of Netherlands Railway, Trans Europe was born of a desire to make travel truly pleasant. "I am fed up with the bureaucrats at the borders," said Den Hollander. His original plan called for a single type of train that would link a united Europe-with a spur under the Channel to Britain. Although that grand scheme has yet to be realized, Den Hollander has succeeded in eliminating visa-checking delays at borders. Nowadays customs officials do their work aboard the moving trains...
...most modern designs, traditional patterns account for over 80% of its business. "We just can't get any interest in our modern designs abroad," says Bryan. The old standbys -earthenware and jasper ware-after about 200 years on the market are still big sellers, and last year helped spur company profits to a 25% rise...
...triggered by VW's request that the government relax tax measures that were instituted to ward off a potential deficit in the national budget. Turning the company's complaint around, Strauss charged that the carmaker has come up with little in the way of innovations that might spur the German economy out of its deflated state...
...pipe that T.A.L. may be the last of the big crude-oil pipeline projects. Even so, there is still plenty of need for new lines to carry gasoline and other refined products. It is initials that are in short supply. T.A.L. itself will soon spawn A.W.P., a 258-mile spur to Vienna. And some of T.A.L.'s oil will be shunted along from Ingolstadt to Karlsruhe via R.D.O. (Rhine-Danube Oil Line). Since that means reversing the flow through R.D.O., which was originally built to supply Ingolstadt, the line already has a new part-time name: "O.D.R...
Sheer necessity will no doubt soon mother the invention of improved alphanumeric systems. Necessity will also spur the development of fully automatic landing techniques, of collision warning systems, of more effective ways to control aircraft flying under visual flight rules. In the meantime, the bulk of the burden must be borne by the 14,000 controllers in towers and control centers. By intensive training and concentration, these highly trained men have learned to control as many as 21 radar blips?each representing an airplane?at a time. They have learned to steel themselves against confusion and panic, no matter...