Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want the full integration of Ulster into the United Kingdom in the manner of Scotland and Wales. A regional assembly could be modeled along the lines of the Greater London Council, with various assembly committees-some headed by Catholics-administering the province's financial, social welfare, housing, transport and general police affairs. Internal security would remain under William Whitelaw, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for an indefinite period. Foreign affairs and defense would continue to be handled, as in the days of Stormont, by Westminster...
...sudden wave of strikes started two weeks ago in the sparsely settled southern province of Aisén. The government had announced plans to set up a mixed government-private highway transport operation there. Angry truck owners-who in Chile are mostly one-or two-vehicle operators-promptly walked off the job, and others, fearful that Aisén was only the first step in a full-scale government takeover, joined the protest. By last week 5,000 truck owners were on strike, severely curtailing shipments of supplies to the capital. Retail store owners quickly shuttered their shops in sympathy...
Sensitive to their social responsibilities, many European business leaders are also working overtime on problems of housing, pollution, transport and boredom on the production line. They are eager to try fresh ideas and methods. Some of them even argue that Europe offers unique opportunities for the application of U.S. sales and management techniques-like franchising and discounting, decentralization of decision making and heavy use of marketing research -simply because those tactics have not yet been exploited much in Europe...
...only a considerable achievement-it is the first new rail transit system to be built in the U.S. in 65 years-but something of a challenge as well. BART was built as an attempt to entice San Francisco commuters out of their cars and onto a fast, smooth rail transport system that serves the entire Bay Area. Says Lawrence Dahms, BART'S assistant general manager for planning and public service: "The basic reason behind BART was not just to keep people from building more freeways but to change development policy. Since 1946, America has put its money in Detroit...
...demonstrated the scope of Delderfield's ambition. It was the first of a projected five volumes in which he planned to trace the rise and fall and rise again of the Swann family, starting with the founding of its transport business at the height of the 19th century Industrial Revolution and running down through the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969. The second, almost equally successful installment was last year's Theirs Was the Kingdom. Next fall will see the publication of Volume III, Give Us This Day, which Delderfield finished just before he died...