Word: transportable
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...grande vitesse). Since the TGVs first went into operation between Paris and Lyons in 1981, cutting travel time in half (to two hours for the 290-mile trip) by averaging 168 m.p.h., they have carried 140 million passengers without accident -- which the French claim is a record for a transport system...
When it came time for the Bolshoi to fly West, the Kremlin paid nothing, at least not directly. The company wheedled Aeroflot into providing two airliners, and got the Defense Ministry to transport some 750 tons of sets and scenery. The Elbim Bank, a new institution for entrepreneurial investments, put up a little cash to help out. "The Ministry of Culture asked me to take a couple of their officials along," Kokonin recalls, with an impresario's smile. "I felt so happy to tell them that I wouldn...
...history of the world has been in great part the history of the mixing of peoples. Modern communication and transport accelerate mass migrations from one continent to another. Ethnic and racial diversity is more than ever a salient fact...
Only a few old functionaries have prospered since unification. Hartmut Lehmann, a veteran engineer with the Transport Ministry, made plans in 1989 to start a construction business in Hungary where, he says, "capitalist trends had already begun." Unification changed his mind: he stayed at home to found Economy & Market, a monthly journal aimed at eastern Germany's new entrepreneurs, and a construction firm with 200 workers. He recently bought the old East German trade-union newspaper Tribune for a mere $85,000, converted it into a nonpolitical daily and moved to make it more efficient and profitable by replacing...
...canceled the first supersonic-transport program because of environmental concerns. It was too noisy to make economically realistic. But research continues at NASA on a new generation of planes and engines. Our job is to fund basic research and then let the private companies -- Boeing and others -- decide whether the plane should be built...