Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...damages that could be claimed by victims of a nuclear accident; forbid new plants to operate unless the state's legislators were convinced that all major safety systems would operate properly in an emergency; require that the legislators be satisfied that the plants had made provisions to transport nuclear materials securely and dispose of them safely...
Maldistribution in the geographic sense can be cured with the education of more physicians and better organization, transportation, and communication. Maldistribution in the cultural sense will not be solved by just more physicians and the relatively easy solutions of problems of transport and communication... The effectiveness of a physician is determined by what he knows and who he is... We shall not have adequate service for our medically deprived citizens, of whatever cultural background, until we have physicians from all cultural backgrounds...
...their own, the 13 surviving U.S. merchant shipping lines and 14 shipyards could never survive. Partly as a result of high wages won by the unions, the U.S. long ago virtually priced itself out of the ocean cargo transport business. According to the U.S. Maritime Administration, the daily operating cost on a 90,000-dead-weight-ton U.S. ship is $14,300, v. $10,800 for a Norwegian and $9,700 for some Liberian-flag ships. Over the years, dozens of American shipowners have switched their colors to the so-called flags of convenience, notably Panama and Liberia, whose regulations...
Good Friends. But later, President Ford vetoed the bill; he feared that the higher transport costs in U.S. ships would only incite further inflation, then running above 11%. That irked the maritime men, especially MEBA'S Calhoon. Says a top AFL-CIO official: "Jesse knows you've got to have friends in this business, and he's good at finding them." After Ford's apostasy, Calhoon threw the union's support behind Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who for defense reasons is a strong advocate of a healthy American merchant marine. Later, when Jackson...
...stopped at nothing. Nine thousand extras? Get them! A supertanker to transport Kong to New York? Hire it! Everything about the production matched the proportions of its title character, except for one refreshingly small disaster: the infestation of the 40-ft. Kong by fleas...