Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver quit last May to become a "public affairs consultant," he drove about town for a while in a dark blue Dodge, very much like the limousines that transport top Executive Branch officials. The car served to get Deaver where he was going in more ways than one: in status-conscious Washington, it was a not-so-subtle reminder of / his White House connections. Now Deaver has given up the status symbol of public power for one of private wealth. These days he rides in a chauffeur- driven Jaguar XJ6 equipped...
...that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
...mystically endowed "single-combat warriors" was out-dated--and outmoded by the shuttle. Safe and reliable, the shuttle served the interests of RCA corporate chiefs and Star Wars fanatics alike. It would, of course, be hard to advocate putting millions of dollars of technology into space if the transport were to blow up every twenty trips or so. The point is, after all, that the shuttle was not a rocket, not a missile with a sardine-can-like warhead of astronauts. In the public mind, its very essence was "to shuttle," to safely carry human beings into space--and back...
...overstatement. The whole scene has become almost a cultural cliche, and certainly a musical anachronism, but I'm not going to get really mean because some of my Deadhead friends got me a seat on my school's "Dead Bus," which was informally run by several undergrads for transport to the concert. Tickets, I was assured, were no problem. Everyone scalped them at the stadium...
...American military escorts declared a "fuel emergency" and ordered the 737 down. The pilot aborted his first approach. But he swung around, came in again and soon found himself surrounded by Italian carabinieri and some 50 U.S. Delta Force commandos, who had piled out of U.S. C-141 transport planes that had landed within moments of the EgyptAir craft and were proceeding on orders from the White House to take custody of the terrorists...