Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golf carts were conceived as simple, functional machines that would ferry players around courses that often stretched for three or four sinuous miles. Now, however, more and more linksters prefer to ride in style. Japan's Yamaha, which is becoming the deluxe class of fairway transport, has just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires...
...thing, this would be unfair to men who, like it or not, were for many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong message to other despots the U.S. might one day like to spirit out on the first transport out of town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other...
...country. France's government, waging an uphill battle to win legislative elections next month, is anxious indeed to unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation that had expressed interest in playing host, had second thoughts and took itself out of the running last week. Meanwhile, warned the new Haitian governing council, any country that...
Gorbachev is a realist who does not make grandiose promises. At a 1961 party congress, Nikita Khrushchev unveiled a program predicting that Soviet citizens by 1980 would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...
...Sverdlovsk and gained a reputation as a forceful administrator. Boris Yeltsin, 55, who replaced Grishin as Moscow party boss, also came from Siberia. When Yeltsin heard grumbling about poor bus service in the capital, he reportedly rode the overcrowded vehicles himself, then ordered the head of the city transport department to do the same...