Word: transport
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...proposed in 2003 but construction still hasn't begun. Labor advocates have demanded the government further restrict competition from foreign workers, build public housing and raise the minimum wage to alleviate the financial strain in the working class. Ho's administration was also brushed by scandal when his former Transport and Public Works Secretary, Ao Man-long, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in January for taking kickbacks on construction projects...
...less provide for their own food needs, but since the Industrial Revolution, the distance from field to fork has greatly increased--the average meal now travels 1,500 miles (2,400 km) to reach your plate. And, notes Bela, "the hidden cost of the food chain is the transport." Thus urban agriculture aims to help people save money as well as the environment...
...offensive weapons, such as bombers and low-flying cruise missiles. Yonas acknowledged that defending against cruise missiles is ''really not part of SDI.'' To stop a bomber or cruise-missile attack would require an extremely costly air- defense system. Even then, an enemy could no doubt find ways to transport a devastating nuclear bomb to the U.S. While acknowledging the risk of an intensified offense-defense spiral, Perle speculated that the Soviets might not even try to overwhelm a partly effective shield against ballistic missiles. ''It just may be,'' he said, ''that the development of a defense would discourage...
...more investment in agricultural irrigation, energy and roads. And we should increase our support to the most effective departments, such as education, health and rural development; they are good for the reputation of the Afghan state and the West. Creating more educated, healthier women and men and better transport, communications and electrical infrastructure may be only part of the story, but they are essential for Afghanistan's economic future...
...people died when an Avions de Transport regional plane, flown by American Eagle, crashed into a soybean field in Roselawn, Indiana. A design flaw made the French-Italian plane become violently uncontrollable in cold weather. Pilots and aeronautical engineers knew what the problem was: the de-icing boots on the ATR wings were not big enough. Those are the rubber sleeves on each wing that can be expanded to crack sheets of ice. But the FAA determined that lengthening the boot would cost too much money. It took three plane crashes, the third one scattering human remains and debris over...