Word: transportable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
America's love affair with the automobile actually ended when we decided to marry the car, forsaking all other nonairborne forms of transport. We tore up the streetcar tracks, stopped building sidewalks and federalized the major passenger rail lines, thereby rendering them largely useless. Our passion for the car still burned hot at times, but it gradually cooled as traffic congestion worsened, fuel prices soared, and the theory of global warming became the 110° reality. Then came the wars in the desert, culminating in our current...
About 5% of our corn is refined to high-fructose corn syrup, which is cheaper, sweeter and, because it is a liquid, easier to transport and mix into foods than sugar. Beverage and food manufacturers see that low price as a signal to use the high-fructose cocktail in virtually everything, substituting it for more nutritious ingredients--not just for sugar--in peanut butter, fruit juices and spaghetti sauce...
...Transport Workhorse aircraft also carried paratroopers but not while towing gliders...
...A380's needs. Still, the spectacular collapse of 2E's midsection has some wondering whether style didn't undermine solidity. Paul Andreu - ADP's main architect over the past three decades, and who also designed 2E - stood by the futuristic structure as "one of my children." Yves Egal, air transport specialist for France's National Federation of Transport Users' Associations, doubts that French devotion to style caused 2E's problems. "Atlanta is a wonderfully convenient airport that gives no attention to style, while the more chic Charles de Gaulle's main drawbacks lie in its organization, not safety," Egal says...
...million complex was supposed to transform Paris into "the most powerful hub in Europe, ahead of Frankfurt and London," boasted Air France CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta. At full capacity, the terminal's twinned, 650-m-long main structures could handle 10 million passengers a year. Computerized baggage systems would transport luggage with minimal error, while travelers relaxed in the bright, spacious interiors of the tubular buildings. But today 2E is welcoming only the investigators who are still trying to figure out why a 30-m section of one concrete, glass and metal tube collapsed last week, killing four people...