Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the coastal highway north of the Israeli border, road signs in Hebrew point the way to Beirut, Nabatiyah, Sidon and other cities. Israeli military policemen with red armbands and white helmets direct traffic at key intersections, and the road has been newly blacktopped to speed the transport of Israeli men and materiel. As the highway approaches Beirut, it passes several large encampments of Israeli soldiers...
...approximate site of that old telegraph terminal, but only the legends of Lincoln's days remained. When Manning retired three weeks ago, as head of the White House's travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...
...with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre-ft. of Missouri River water to a San Francisco-based consortium, Energy Transport Systems Inc., which plans to pump the water 260 miles to the coalfields of the Powder River Basin near Gillette, Wyo. Coal slurry would then be moved through conduits to power plants in the South...
...charged that a total of twelve Hitachi and five Mitsubishi employees took part in separate conspiracies to transport stolen IBM property to Japan. The bureau arrested five of these suspects, but the rest were in Japan last week. Among those accused are several high-ranking officials who allegedly approved the scheme, including Kisaburo Nakazawa, general manager of Hitachi's main computer manufacturing plant at Kanagawa...
...issue that led to the decision surfaced in 1968, when Air Force Budget Analyst A. Ernest Fitzgerald told Congress that development costs of the $3.4 billion C-5A transport plane were over budget by $2 billion. In 1970, as the result of what the Air Force described as a reorganization, the Pentagon let Fitzgerald go. The Civil Service Commission found the dismissal improper, and ordered that he be re-employed with back pay. Fitzgerald protested that his new cost analyst job was not equivalent to the old one. In a $3.5 million suit, Fitzgerald charged that Nixon had conspired...