Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, repeatedly promising each that it would not allow the other to establish a base on North Korean territory. For the past two years, however, North Korea has allowed Soviet merchant ships and tankers to use its year-round port of Najin and from there to transport petroleum and other supplies by rail to Vladivostok when that city's harbor is closed by ice. A top South Korean official notes that this kind of co operation would have been "unthinkable only a few years ago and therefore at least symbolically worrisome." Symbolism aside, it helps the Soviets support...
...normalization of relations. Six round-trip airline flights a week now connect Cairo and Tel Aviv-three by El Al and three by Nefertiti Airways, a makeshift airline designed to protect EgyptAir from possible boycotts at Arab airports. Numerous accords have been signed in commerce, technical-exchange, land transport and cultural-affairs programs. Israel has sold Egypt $12 million worth of goods, ranging from bananas to iron ore. Egypt, in turn, has sold Israel $500 million in oil-a quarter of its production-and has picked up another $15 million from tourism. Egyptian agronomists are soliciting Israeli help for advanced...
Like Berg, Cohen wanted to insert new genes artificially into bacteria. But where Berg resorted to a virus as his transport system, Cohen opted for plasmids, which he had been studying in his lab. As he listened to Boyer's description of his work that night in Waikiki, however, Cohen realized that there might be a short cut. Boyer and his associates had found a so-called restriction enzyme that cuts DNA precisely at predetermined points, and performs this surgery in an especially helpful way: at each end of the severed, twin-stranded molecule, it leaves an extra...
...most dramatic briefings of the week, Eagleburger offered his European listeners a chronological summary of Soviet-bloc efforts to arm the rebels. He described how, over the past two months, Soviet-built transport planes have been flying from Cuba to Managua, Nicaragua, and unloading a variety of American-and European-made arms, which are eventually smuggled into El Salvador. He backed up his assertions with a slide show that included blowups of documents allegedly written by a Communist guerrilla leader and detailing commitments made by Viet Nam, Ethiopia, the Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps...
...firm, but its DC (for Douglas Commercial) series truly made it fly. Douglas' masterpiece, the DC-3, was the first American plane to make a profit from passengers only. During World War II, more than 10,000 were built and adapted for military use as the C-47 transport. Douglas Aircraft lost the race into the jet age when Boeing introduced the 707 in 1958, a year ahead of Douglas' DC-8. In 1967 the ailing Douglas firm was absorbed by McDonnell Aircraft, and its founder retired...