Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only objectionable experience on my visit to the Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Boston ICA was the piece of red paper stuck on the windshield of my mode of transport that I found upon returning from a three-hour feast of pure visual exhilaration. It seems that in situations like the Mapplethorpe fiasco, everybody has to pay some price...
...long ocean journey, the Army maintains that it is safer than lengthy transport by trucks or trains. An Army study shows that a shipboard accident would spread a lethal nerve-gas cloud no farther than 52 miles, but that may be little comfort to the 1,200 residents of Johnston Island, which is only two miles long. The Army concedes that terrorists could try to sabotage the cargo, but it minimizes the threat. As a precaution, however, it will not disclose just when the two ships carrying the chemicals will set sail or give any hint of the course they...
...company's four biggest military production programs -- the Air Force's F-15E Eagle fighter, the Marine Corps's AV-8B Harrier II strike fighter and the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter -- are scheduled to be phased out in the next three years. The C-17 military transport is behind schedule, and orders for the Navy's T-45 Goshawk trainer have been cut back. The company is also teamed with other aerospace companies in several programs that face uncertain futures. Examples: the B-2 Stealth bomber, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter, the Navy...
Inflation worries arise because state subsidies in the G.D.R. kept many prices artificially low. Rent and the costs of basic foods and public transport typically were a fraction of those in West Germany -- less than one- fifteenth in the case of rent. On the other hand, consumer durables were outrageously overpriced -- and an open market will bring them down...
...brought thousands of protest letters from around the world pouring into the B.I.E.'s Paris office. In Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus is no way to solve real problems of sanitation, transport and tourism," says Alvise Zorzi, author of seven books on Venice and leader of the "No Expo" groups...