Word: transport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes approximately 15,000 pounds of kosher baked goods each year for transport to Manhattan, Queens and Long Island...
...possessed a complex character that was part genius mechanic and part mystic. All his life he demonstrated a surprising, inner-directed capacity for intellectual growth. In the last decades of his life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world ceaselessly, traveling light, seeking out primitive peoples in an exercise of atavistic communion...
...other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike is your Fatal Lover, and there's no way around that: if it weren't true, there would be no market...
...base rate at Singapore's Hotel Phoenix is about $160 a night, marketing director Low admits that she "is happy to let you stay for $87 a night." Many hotels are spicing up the discount deal with a slew of extras, from free clothes pressing to complimentary limousine transport and free breakfast. Hong Kong's Conrad Hotel, for instance, is offering a standard room, with all those freebies and more, starting at about $315 a night (that's down from nearly $900 in January). Both Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines are offering one free night...
MOSCOW: What?s a guy got to do to get his paycheck around here? Miners who haven?t received theirs for eight months believe blockading the country?s key transport routes might help, which they?ve been doing all week. But Boris Yeltsin today scolded the miners for being unreasonable: "The strikers are unwilling to hear cool-headed arguments or reasonable explanations and want to have their problems resolved at once and at any cost," said Yeltsin...