Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youngster is the victim of severe aplastic anemia, a rare, puzzling disease in which the bone marrow loses its ability to produce three essential components of blood: the white cells that fight infection, the red cells that transport oxygen to the tissues, and platelets for clotting. Only by confining Teddy to the superclean room and giving him repeated transfusions have doctors managed to keep him alive...
Strict Limits. A passionate socialist, Foot won backing not just from the party's left wing, but even from some center-right M.P.s who admire his integrity. It was Foot and his friend Jack Jones, powerful boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, who last summer persuaded the unions to accept strict limits on wage increases as a necessary means of fighting Britain's inflation rate, which was then running...
...wasn't that the linksters were hooking or slicing their tee shots, because the clubs never made it out of the back seat of the 1975 Matador which was being used to transport half of the team to New Seabury Country Club on Cape Cod, the site of the scheduled match...
...worrisome to Israel and its American Jewish supporters. With predictable grumbling from Jerusalem, the U.S. has sold arms to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that played minor roles in the 1973 war. This month, though, Washington announced that it intends to sell six C-130 Hercules military transport planes to Egypt (total cost: $50 million). Fearing that this may merely foreshadow future large-scale arms shipments to the Egyptians, leaders of American Jewish organizations last week warned President Ford they were "strenuously opposed" to the deal, and that any further sales to Cairo might alienate Jewish voters...
...they try to sort out the bewildering tangle of air fares, vacationers planning summer trips to Europe can be sure of one thing: it will cost more. Last week 86 airlines belonging to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) agreed on a 6% fare increase on North Atlantic routes that will go into effect May 1. The new rate will boost the standard economy fare by $42, to $806, for a London-New York round trip and from $968 to $1,010 for a New York-Rome return economy ticket. Hikes in excursion fares used most frequently by tourists were...