Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convoy of tugs and barges making the hazardous trip from the Pacific Northwest to the oilfields around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Once a year, for up to six weeks, the Arctic ice pack crumbles away from the Alaskan coast, giving the oil companies their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was threatened. This year Atlantic Richfield's Arco unit is relying...
...like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will house a web of pipes rising from 36 different wells. Cargo aboard the 14 barges is worth around $170 million, and the oil companies are paying about $10 million to transport...
...totally in order. Unemployment is estimated at 12%, inflation at 15%. One reason for the economy's woes is that Herrera Campíns' predecessor, Carlos Andrés Pérez, encouraged a series of ill-advised state enterprises, such as steelmaking and air transport, that last year ran up losses estimated at $2.5 billion. Other important sectors of the economy, mainly agriculture, have been corroded by the massive inflow of oil money: once a self-sufficient food producer, Venezuela now imports more than 50% of what it eats...
Shortly before sunrise one day last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
...also faces decisions about other future U.S. defense systems, such as the MX missile and the advanced strategic bomber. Because opposition to a land-based MX system remains strong among officials in Utah and Nevada, where it would be located, an alternative scheme to place the missiles on air-transport planes remains very much alive. Reagan is scheduled to make an announcement on MX basing soon after his Sept. 3 return to Washington...