Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thais themselves inadvertently pulled the plug. Their 200-year-old capital began as a trading village in swampy lowlands on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Natural and man-made klongs (canals) provided transport and natural drainage. After World War II, economic growth lured hundreds of thousands of workers to the city, and newly prosperous Bangkok took to the automobile with a vengeance. In the scramble for road space, most klongs were filled...
...airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen of Maine were about to arrive in Managua for talks with Sandinista officials when the attack began. Their U.S. Air Force C140 transport was ordered into a holding pattern and then diverted to Honduras. The Senators arrived in Managua later in the day and surveyed the damaged airport with Nicaraguan officials, who wanted them to see what U.S. aid to the rebels was doing...
When Weinberger arrived in Honduras, U.S. Navy Seabees were already crashing through the jungle countryside with bulldozers. The task of the Navy workmen: to convert three of Honduras' ungainly airstrips into modern concrete runways capable of handling U.S. C-130 military transport planes. The Seabees and the Army Corps of Engineers are the mechanized advance guard of ambitious U.S. plans for the poor and underdeveloped country. They were laying the groundwork for a much heralded series of U.S. military maneuvers in Honduras, scheduled to last until at least next March. Among the aims of the exercises, known...
...Congress Watch report showed that the travel is not only » frequent, but also often extravagant. For example, costly military transport planes are used | when commercial airline service would be cheaper and just as convenient. Congressman Ronnie 3 Hippo, an Alabama Democrat, last year led a nine-member delegation to Vienna to attend a U.N. conference. The flight costs came to $74,392 using military aircraft, almost three times the tab to fly business class in commercial planes, according to the report. These bills are paid out of funds-$26.3 million this year-that Congress appropriates to the Air Force...
...announcement, published in Pravda, might come as good news to Soviet factory managers who complain that they are hamstrung by too many orders from Moscow. The new regulations, effective early next year, will apply only to five ministries that control transport and heavy-machinery plants, electrotechnical factories, and selected industries in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and Lithuania. But they will give local managers in these target factories a greater role in setting their own production goals. In an effort to halt the decline in exports of manufactured goods, which accounted for only about 13% of all 1982 exports, managers will also...