Word: transportion
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...important part of the population." Boubakeur alludes to an important point: the boundary between permissible and impermissible speech shifts in tune with changes in political power. Blair has been trying to channel the wave of disgust that followed last July's Muslim suicide attacks against London's transport system to broaden Britain's restrictions on speech that might incite terror. But he's still been finding it a tough sell. And last week, his critics pointed to al-Masri's conviction as proof that existing laws are more than sufficient to nab those who intentionally and threateningly advocate terror, without...
...language other than English), and it will form more global partnerships with content providers. Here are some things Google watchers speculate it is pursuing: new ways to search for (and perhaps buy) music, an online payment service to rival PayPal, some sort of smart phone, a space elevator to transport stuff to the moon. (Don't laugh. Brin and Page can't seem to let go of that last one, at least as an idea to kick around.) To help accomplish its goals, whatever they may be, Google raised $4.2 billion late last year through a second stock offering...
...price: workers' safety standards in the yards are notoriously low, and some countries object to being a dumping ground for richer countries' toxic waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like much in the maritime business, is murky. In 2004, the signatories of the 1989 Basel Convention, which regulates the transport of hazardous waste, agreed that a ship bound for demolition could be considered as such material, and hence is subject to strict rules on its movements. France is a Basel signatory, but its courts have ruled that, because the Clemenceau is "war equipment," they have no jurisdiction to rule whether...
...margin of defeat was rail-thin. Out of over 22,000 votes cast, there were just seven more nays than yeas. But short of a recount, the contract is dead-a stark reversal of fortunes for Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint. During the strike, the former subway car cleaner survived the wrath of millions of nettled commuters just long enough to win some real concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Toussaint faces possible jail time for the strike, not to mention the millions in fines leveled at the union, but he had managed to preserve pensions and lock...
...Interior Department last week opened for exploration 389,000 acres of Alaskan tundra and shoreline, which officials estimate may contain 3.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Yet that's a pittance compared with the 22.3 trillion cu. ft. that the U.S. consumed in 2004. And two projects to transport gas from Alaska's North Slope and Canadian territories are in the works. One proposal entails building a $20 billion pipeline to Chicago, but that would take 10 years to complete...