Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa (TIME Daily) ... TIME magazine also reports that America Online is forging alliances with Microsoft (TIME Daily) ... U.S. markets anxiously await corporate earnings reports (Money Daily) ... Top TV show Frasier wins again at the Emmys, bringing it within reach...
...cradle of the modern Olympics, Athens felt cheated out of its right to host the centennial Games in ?96. Since then the city has made extensive investment in its transport system and infrastructure, whose deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
...federal investigation into charges that an aide diverted more than $100,000 of union funds last year to Carey's campaign for re-election. To these headaches is added the wrath of millions of Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts. "I'm mad at the Teamsters Union," says Paula Lambert, founder of the Mozzarella Co. in Dallas, Texas, who has had to scramble for ways to ship her perishable specialty cheeses to restaurants and gourmet shops around the country. Declares Darlene Garalde, owner...
...attract leisure travelers, a strategy that works only when planes are flying full--and their bigger competitors will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen. "It's very hard to make money feeding at the bottom of the barrel," says Perry Flint, executive editor of Air Transport World, a trade paper...
...first city to open for business after Deng launched his economic reforms in 1979, and its vibrant populace threw itself headlong into the pursuit of cold cash. Taking advice and investment from Hong Kong, Guangzhou hustled to become China's third biggest consumer market, second most important transport hub, third best attractor of foreign investment. Today Guangzhou's tycoons worry about competition from Hong Kong, and Beijing worries about the example Guangzhou sets for China...