Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day, delegates accepted the twelve-month rule, but at the cost of an ominous amount of internal strife. The opposition to the rule included delegates of the 1.9 million-member Transport and General Workers' Union and the militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member...
...kindergarten through third grade into regular city classrooms-at no substantial increase in expense, they argue, over that of educating normal children. All but a few attend the handsome William M. Trotter School in Roxbury, a school with a large staff that is even equipped with an elevator to transport children in wheelchairs...
...major carriers came up with their new fare in Geneva after a three-day meeting of the International Air Transport Association, the industry group that sets fares charged by most scheduled overseas carriers. IATA'S officials were pleased that the organization had moved swiftly enough to avoid a messy price war among members-and wage it instead with Laker...
...Ethiopians. Heavy fighting has broken out between the two countries. The Western Somali Liberation Front, which is supported by Barre, claims to have killed at least 1,000 Ethiopians in savage battles in Bale province. The Somalis say that they have shot down three Ethiopian jets and a transport plane carrying Ethiopian paratroopers over Somali territory. The Ethiopians, who claim that the Somali insurgents are really part of Barre's army, claim to have killed 300 Somalis and knocked out 17 of their tanks...
...member why he belongs to his favorite cartel, and he most probably will answer that he would go out of business if competitors could undercut his prices. That has been the standard defense put forth by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the industry group that sets fares for overseas travel on scheduled flights. Still, it is amazing what a little competition...