Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's budget problems continue to grow, and last week underwriters turned down the city's long-anticipated sale of short-term notes after the offering had been given the lowest possible rating by Moody's Investors Service. Koch also faces negotiations with the ornery Transport Workers Union, his first encounter with city unions that have warned their wage demands can no longer be deferred...
Consisting of molecules of fat, including cholesterol, and protein tightly bound together into a single chemical complex, the lipoproteins are part of an intricate transport system. Among the largest and lightest of these globules are the very-low-density lipoproteins (VLDL). They carry some cholesterol but mainly other fats to various parts of the body. The slightly heavier low-density lipoproteins (LDL) move cholesterol from cell to cell, where it is used to produce sex hormones, among other things. Any excess cholesterol is picked up by the heaviest lipoproteins, HDL, which, like garbage trucks, haul it off to the liver...
...program every chance he gets. While the sailing program will probably never catch the eye of the big-name alumni recruiters who work such wonders for Restic and Cleary, Horn apparently believes there are growing numbers of people who have come to recognize the joys of wind-blown transport...
...little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western passenger to step aboard the supersonic transport on its inaugural flight and filed this report...
...chaotic state of affairs with a single companywide labor pact, to be negotiated by November 1979. The centralized agreement is to provide that all Leyland plants pay the same wage for comparable jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved off the worst. The government, which now owns...