Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA's new manner was in marked contrast to its bold, often arrogant and occasionally careless approach in pre-Challenger days. NASA initially promoted the shuttle as a routine "space truck," an efficient, economical transport vehicle capable of lofting any payload -- commercial, scientific or military -- into orbit. Washington succumbed to that pitch, allowing NASA to decree ! that expendable rockets such as the Delta, Atlas and Titan be phased out in favor of the shuttle...
...then identified the freed hostage as Singh, a visiting professor at Beirut University College. "We understood the Syrians intend to transport Mr. Singh to Damascus on Tuesday morning," Oakley said yesterday...
Shinagel says members of HILR are looking into the possibilities of building a retirement community in Brookline, where real estate is less expensive and available in large blocks. A busing system would transport students from Brookline to Harvard for the HILR classes each...
...occurred in the north and west. At the same time, cost overruns and federal budget cuts knocked out plans to extend the rails into those parts of town. Result: Metrorail cannot deliver residents of lower-income neighborhoods to the northern suburbs, where many of them work. Nor can it transport white-collar commuters in the opposite direction, from the north to downtown. County officials hoped Metrorail would carry 200,000 riders a day; it transports at most 34,000 (the fare: $1). To stem financial losses, the county may cut back on service, a move that could reduce passenger loads...
...Lech Walesa, leader of the outlawed Solidarity union and an electrician at the facility. They were followed by steel-mill employees in Stalowa Wola and coal-mine workers in Jastrzebie, where the latest round of labor troubles began on Aug. 16. The last to settle were port and public transport employees in Szczecin, who abandoned their strikes around noon on Saturday...