Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow removal budget has remained constant after being cut in the first year of Proposition 2 1/2. Before the property tax-cutting measure passed in 1980; the city could transport snow off main streets after plowing...
...tears as she honored Britain's fighting men, living and dead, whose victory over an Argentine occupying force had lifted Britain's spirits and Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane touched down on the new airstrip at Port Stanley, the capital. Thatcher called it her "personal pilgrimage." Her adversaries called it a crass political ploy, calculated to appeal to British nationalism and boost the Prime Minister's standing in time for the election she is expected to call...
...combat. When this was discussed, I practically went into a state of shock because of the moral conflicts it caused within me. It made me sick. They wanted me to provide soldiers to dig the graves, guards to control the Miskitos while they were being shot, trucks to transport them. I don't know if this massacre actually happened or not. On Aug. 10, I left Nicaragua...
...likely approach will employ long, narrow metal canisters, to be loaded with spent fuel, embedded deep in the rock of large (2,000-acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group...
...million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine had been in Pakistan, where it was used to dig a passage between the Indus and Jhelum rivers; it had to be broken down into 742 components for transport by ship, rail and barge...