Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independence elections that were held last February, his party had only been included in the government by invitation. Nor was that invitation completely withdrawn last week. Still anxious to mollify the Patriotic Front forces, the Prime Minister appointed a Nkomo stalwart, Josiah Chinamano, to head the Ministry of Transport. The Patriotic Front now holds five portfolios in Mugabe's 26-member Cabinet-not a bad deal for an outvoted minority...
...FSLN has consolidated firm control over government, armed forces, and mass organizations. The size, discipline and morale of regular army and militia units are impressive. Their newly acquired transport and communications equipment would make them serious contenders in any regional conflict...
...always admired the layout of our capital city, Canberra, which was designed by an American architect named Walter Burley Griffin in a worldwide competition in 1912. Then, two years ago, I visited Washington, D.C., designed by France's Pierre L'Enfant, and saw perfection in beauty, layout, transport, lakes and monuments [Nov. 10]. In 1979 I traveled to Paris and realized that Washington has the edge on them...
...reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...
...bicycle, formerly a Christmas-tree item or a Sunday diversion, has become a serious vehicle of transport in some American cities. But when bikes move into heavy traffic, problems of incompatibility arise. The circulatory system of the metropolitan U.S. is designed for cars and trucks, with pedestrians granted their margin on the sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step...