Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different technology, has built a prototype 14-in. screen just 2.3 in. thick. The prototype will have a more immediate application as a computer accessory than as a home TV screen. But one slender advantage is already possible: the Siemens screen can be folded up for storage or transport...
North Pole technicians ought to have quite a time trying to satisfy E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science. "I want a machine that would transport me instantaneously between the office and the Amazon rain forest," he says. Others seek equally uncanny research aids. Thomas R. Martin, assistant professor of the Classics asks for "an immense personal library open all hours...
...hours, the five-man, seven-woman jury last week sided with the prosecutor's views that greed, not patriotism, had led Wilson to export an M-16 automatic rifle and three pistols from the U.S. to Libya in 1979. It convicted him on seven counts of arranging to transport the guns, samples of a promised larger shipment that later won him a $22 million contract to arm and train Libyan fighters. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 39 years and a $240,000 fine...
Getting to classes can present another barrier. Since the shuttle buses are not accessible, the transition plan dictated the implementation of an accessible van to transport students to locations on campus. The van is operating, and last year severe overcrowding problems were alleviated by adding a second van. However, because of the way it's managed, the van only performs a minimal service. One third of the time the van either does not show up at all or arrives so late that the appointment or class has been missed. This can happen when clerks make the reservations incorrectly or schedule...
...particular fantasy world. No extremity of stripling down or jazzing up can create the illusion that a Hamlet or a Romeo and Juliet takes place in the modern world; on the other hand, only the most through and scholarly accumulation of historical trivia can even hope to transport the audience back to the actual world the Bard wrote in. Between the two extremes fall the infinite ways Shakespeare is actually played-each in its way imaginary...