Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which borders on nearly every one of its client states, the U.S. is separated by oceans from all its NATO allies except Canada. The Atlantic Alliance's ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this...
...19th century fuel that is dangerous to mine, difficult to transport and dirty to burn free the world's most energy-hungry nation from its crushing dependence on foreign oil? All along, that has been the big question mark over coal, the linchpin in President Carter's National Energy Plan. Carter's goal for coal is to boost output to 1.2 billion tons a year by 1985-an unprecedented increase of almost 75% over the 685 million tons mined last year-and to coax electric utilities and industry to burn the coal instead of imported...
...higher than those at Haneda. They also worry about flight safety. Narita has only one 13,000-foot runway, which is periodically subjected to severe crosswinds. Even the jet-fuel handling system has been complicated by the disorders. Unable to acquire land for an underground pipeline, airport managers must transport fuel by railroad tank car. Because the protestors have tried to blow up at least one train, shipments move under heavy police guard...
...says one Commerce Department economist, the nation has gone through "a punk quarter." Ice and snow so snarled transport, and the coal strike so curtailed electricity that national production showed little growth. Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc., calculates that real Gross National Product rose only 1.5% in the first quarter. With the snow melted and miners back at work, Eckstein thinks real G.N.P. will show a catch-up surge of 7.5% from April through June. For the year, real G.N.P. is still likely to rise around 4.5%. The trick will be to keep inflation from speeding...
...MBTA, which owns the kiosk, may legally destroy it even though it is on the register. The transport authority will make its plan for the kiosk public at a meeting early next week...