Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes McNamara as Defense Secretary. Indeed, so long as his aide's enormous energy supply lasts, there is no reason why Johnson cannot keep tossing him additional chores as they come up. McNamara is already chairman of both the President's Advisory Committee on Supersonic Transport and the interagency committee of the Appalachian Regional Commission...
Mohieddin has jailed dozens of Communists, reopened negotiations with Washington to get U.S. food shipments started again, hired pro-Western Mahmoud Younis, director of the Suez Canal, to reorganize Egypt's creaking transport and communications. Last week Cairo even announced that it hoped to infuse some new capitalist life into the long-moribund Cairo Stock Exchange, and declared Port Said a duty-free zone...
...took four hours to transport the victims by bus to the hospital at Cuenca. Norton was treated for minor cuts and released, but the Paynters were admitted in serious condition...
Stackhouse stresses that the new discipline is a modification, not a rejection, of traditional religious values. "You can't take medieval thinkers and transport them to the twentieth century," he says. He and his colleagues, in undertaking sociological studies for the Divinity School, have sought the advice of specialists in other fields. They have met with representatives of the Business School to consider questions of business ethics and will hold forums with the Education School on religion in public schools...
Economic stagnation has already aggravated the traditional rift between left and right in Labour's ranks. At the Blackpool conference in October, the party's two biggest unions--the Transport and General Workers and the Amalgamated Electrical Workers--threw their one and three quarter million votes against Wilson's wages legislation--the keystone of the government's policy. Rebellious constituency parties contributed another three quarter million--leaving only three and three quarter million of the membership supporting the party's leadership...