Word: transportable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those traffic-clogged motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal building...
Delay Takes Its Toll Made in Germany " no longer appears to be a label of engineering excellence. Last week, German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since...
...school formula has worked tremendously for Romano—TV’s highest paid actor, he’s currently making $1.8 million per episode of Raymond—and in attempting a film career he has wisely chosen to transport his down-to-earth persona from the small screen...
Students from the REP sought contributions door-to-door in first-year dorms and postered the upperclass Houses requesting donations. Recycling and Waste Management helped transport the collected items to the shelter...
Well, I think the story that takes the cake is the time last year for DHO when we rented a U-haul truck to transport a genie from Pfoho to Dunster. Yes, it was as painful as it might sound, despite the fact that eight people were trying to push the thing into the truck. Now, there just happened to be a massive snowstorm this day as well. Driving through Cambridge in a big U-haul that could barely accelerate and that could barely stay on the road definitely took years off my life...