Word: transport
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...consider that the United States is mistaken, protectionist and clearly violating the treaty," Mexico's Economy Secretary, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, told a news conference on March 16. "To decide to protect their own transport sector, they have decided to affect the competitiveness of our countries and of the region, impacting many other productive sectors." (Read a story about the new world sprouting on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico frontier...
...After you recovered these soldiers, what happened next? We would place the remains in a transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead...
Take a Back Seat. Despite everything you hear about those big, bad bankers, it looks like they're flying economy these days instead of business class, according to the International Air Transport Association. Global revenues from business- and first-class tickets were down by at least 25% in January 2009, compared to January 2008, suggesting that executives are trading down to cheaper tickets. Maybe this makes it easier for the rest of us to nab free upgrades...
...Maruti 800, the Nano's closest competition, sells for about twice as much. Yet Tata has been as good as his word. The Nano is going on sale on April 9 at 470 outlets across India at a factory price of 100,000 rupees, not including taxes and transport costs. Within a few years, Nanos could also be available in Europe...
...completely regarded as fiction. In his account of Stonehenge, historian Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that troops tried to move the stones from Ireland to England in order to provide a monument for their war dead. When they couldn't, they enlisted the help of the wizard Merlin to transport the massive stones - some weighing as much as 50 tons - back to Britain before arranging them in the current configuration...