Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classes of armament, production has declined in 13 between 1977 and 1981. That drop may indicate that the Kremlin has built its arsenal up to strength. But it could also reflect the stagnation in the civilian economy, as producers fail to supply quality steel and as bottlenecks in rail transport hold up vital raw materials needed by defense contracts...
Whispers about Macintosh have circulated for more than two years, but in the past six weeks Apple has been relentlessly thumping drums for its new machine. The company has used a fleet of tractor-trailers to transport a flashy demonstration to 1,500 dealers in six cities. It has primed its sales force, courted Wall Street analysts and tried to arrange deals for exclusive magazine coverage. Even before the machine is out, 100,000 copies of Mac-World, a magazine entirely devoted to the computer, have been printed. By the end of April, Apple will have spent $15 million promoting...
Lubbers responded quickly. Unemployment compensation was cut by 5%. The first of several planned reductions lowered the minimum wage by 2.5%. The biggest sting, however, was the 3% public-sector wage cut. Outraged transport workers responded by interrupting rail, bus and tram service for five weeks. Then the sanitation workers struck, turning Holland into a landscape of trash-and taking pains to block Lubbers' own street with refuse. A postal strike halted mail deliveries for three weeks. Still, Lubbers stood firm. After Parliament approved the wage cuts, the unions conceded. But Lubbers' victory came at a cost...
...moments later. Meanwhile, Goodman was driven from his Damascus military jail to the U.S. embassy. After putting on a tie and brown tweed jacket supplied by Jackson, he had a celebratory lunch at the Damascus-Sheraton and boarded an Air Force C-141 for the flight home. As the transport plane gained altitude, TIME Correspondent Jack White reported, a relieved Jackson paraded down the aisle exulting, "From Galilee to jubilee...
...this author we have already heard it twice before, in Portrait of a Presidency and Death of a President. In One Brief Shining Moment, a series of personal recollections of Kennedy, Manchester returns to tell the tale again. His latest work is an attempt to recreate the past, to transport the reader back through the misty timewarp of memory. "If I have been successful," writes Manchester in his preface, "you should feel not only that these events happened, but that they are happening as your eye roves down the page, and that you--not the author or any other source...