Word: transport
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...still contains many vagaries. Tax shelters affecting real estate, for example, have + been effectively squelched, but those involving oil and gas exploration remain relatively untouched. In Aaron's view, the major business losers under the new code would be the office- and apartment-construction industries, some public utilities, and transport and communications companies. Probable winners include firms that have not been able to take advantage of tax shelters in the past, such as retailers and even some manufacturing industries, like food companies. Some educational institutions are likely to be hurt. Under the new law, part of the value of gifts...
Residents would be required under law to bring two waste containers to the curb weekly: one filled with recyclable trash and one with everything else. The city would then transport the recyclable rubbish to a sorting and processing plant which would sell the materials to industries...
Security is at the heart of another charge. Noting that the Department of Energy plans to help build demonstration food-irradiation plants in Oklahoma, Iowa, Hawaii, Florida, California and Washington, opponents complain that the resulting spread of radioactive material will increase the chances of mishaps during transport, use and disposal. Nor has the supervision of existing irradiation plants been reassuring. The NRC acknowledges that it may inspect a facility only once in three years. Radiation Technology's license to operate a New Jersey plant was recently suspended for two months after the NRC found that company officials tried to hide...
KARACHI, Pakistan--A U.S. Air Force medical transport plane staffed by battle surgeons evacuated 17 victims yesterday, including six Americans, who were wounded in the hijack of a Pan Am jumbo jet that killed at least 15 people...
...aftermath of the plane attack, Sadiq pledged that the government would "try our level best to make sure that all means -- river, rail and air transport -- are made available so that aid reaches the needy." Yet as long as both sides continued their military operations, relief efforts seemed certain to remain suspended. In the meantime, roving gangs of bandits, armed tribesmen and Ugandan army deserters swarm through the rebel-held area...