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...railroads. Though a healthy rail system is more essential than ever to save gasoline and carry coal, the industry has been held back for years by overregulation by the ICC, which keeps rates high in order to protect inefficient lines-and thus often makes the railroads uncompetitive with rival transport systems...
Since the onset of the Industrial Age and mass production, technology has been used to create an independent man-made community which exploits the environment for its own material profit. These tools--railroads to transport us, toilets to dispose of our waste, electrical power plants to provide fuel--are totally self-serving and often usurp the natural resources on which all life depends...
...prospect of a new Marxist government in Luanda threatened their property. The "matter of great importance" was approval of their longstanding applications to return to Angola. In a surprising reverse airlift, 569 refugees have already made the fateful trip back home, while some 1,600 others are awaiting transport via the Angola airline TAAG. A cargo ship is being readied to return the possessions they brought with them in their desperate flight three years...
Engelhard stabled race horses in North Carolina, England and South Africa, $15 million worth of race horses -- about the same amount that the Engelhard Foundation has in assets. He needed three private jets and a helicopter to transport him to his international business and pleasure appointments...
...with the trials of Soviet dissidents last July, the Russians have been dickering with the Western Europeans for a replacement. In one typical instance involving Argentina, the State Department nearly blocked a helicopter sale to the rightist military regime on the ground that the choppers might be used to transport political prisoners...