Word: transport
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Oddly enough, a reopened canal may well have less effect on the transportation of oil, its old staple, than on other materials. Israel operates a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, and Egypt is about to build a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez, skimming off some of the Persian Gulf oil that used to be shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world...
...have a handicapped preschooler who must be transported several days a week (90 miles a week) for therapy. We need a large car to transport her wheelchair and a carriage for our six-month...
Railroads, unlike the billions of dollars worth of projected expressways and airports, are already in place; tracks, roadbeds and rights of way already exist. As the authors also point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail...
...code's limits, including 18,000 electrical-power engineers who had refused to work overtime and weekends. Still, there was fear that British unions, which have a reputation for striking at the drop of a hat, might stage a general strike. Said George Evans of the huge Transport and General Workers' Union: "Feelings are at a boiling point. You cannot slash a man's wages by 40% and expect to get away with...
...biggest deduction will come from the capital spending of nationalized industries ($600 million). The other major cuts include roads and transport ($490 million), defense ($395 million), health services ($277 million) and education ($240 million). The new budget clearly spelled the end of Heath's hoped for 3.5% economic growth next year; at best there will be no growth. Beyond that, Barber unveiled restrictions on installment buying of everything from refrigerators to automobiles. Consumers now will be required to pay one-third down and the rest within 24 months. Barber also imposed additional taxes on rental properties and ordered Britons...