Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reset their watches every spring with an easy conscience, might protest that this proves Toffler wrong, demonstrating that nation-states, far from extinction, are likely only to multiply. Instead, Toffler says, we will soon become a world governed by "an Oceans Matrix, a Space Matrix, a Food Matrix, a Transport Matrix, an Energy Matrix, and the like, all flowing into and out of one another...
...Yorkers, one of the most adaptable breeds of urban animals, were trying their best to adjust to living without a system that they often have trouble living with. Some 5.1 million passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front...
Company executives hope that the cruise will now be a harbinger of more Government business. Even though the House Armed Services Committee last week voted to block funding of the Pentagon's $6 billion to $7 billion C-X transport plane program planned for the mid-1980s, engineers are at work on designs and mockups. The new plane would be used for the rapid transport of forces to hot spot areas like the Middle East. Says...
Heady with the euphoria of the early jet age in the 1960s and expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s...
...invented the "discomfort index," the sum of the rates of unemployment and inflation. Okun's abiding concern was to control inflation without triggering recession and its grim results for the poor. Economic efficiency, he believed, must yield somewhat to social equality, or as he put it: "Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket...