Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture or transport of an explosive device, and they could face up to ten years in prison...
Pack a universal drain stopper for Samarkand and a pepper mill on any trip. If you fancy a great British breakfast in London, bypass Claridge's and make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from...
...recent months, more than 40,000 victims of famine have tramped across battle zones to reach the southern Sudanese town of Wau and its life-giving supplies of food. Last week not a single ounce of relief grain was delivered to the starving region. A transport plane filled with 315 tons of corn stood idle in neighboring Uganda, and 200 food-laden vehicles were halted at the border. With food supplies all but exhausted, some famished Sudanese were reduced to eating leaves off the trees. And when guerrilla fighting broke out in the crumbling provincial capital, many of the half...
...owns five other cars, including a Union Pacific diner. Given ten days' notice, Amtrak is happy to move a private varnish almost anywhere on its tracks. The price, however, is a tad higher than a first-class ticket. It cost Businessman Gardner more than $14,500 in fees to transport his car from Milwaukee to California and back again in June. Popular runs include the stretch between Washington and New York City and the mountain-hugging route from Salt Lake City to Denver...
Since colonial times the commerce and transport of South Africa and its black neighbors have been closely interwoven. In fact, as Pik Botha was quick to emphasize, even while Mugabe was speaking out against Pretoria at the London meeting, Zimbabwe was negotiating to extend its existing trade agreement with South Africa. Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin...