Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money is needed to transport the immigrants to Israel by air from Vienna (see box), teach them He brew, and retrain specialists whose Russian skills-dentistry and law, for instance-are inadequate by Israeli standards. New housing must also be provided, since Israel is chronically short of living space...
...sells for less than $1,200,000. As the designer, Alexei Yakovlev, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "My ship is a true jet successor to the Douglas DC-3. The YAK-40 can operate out of any field that can take a DC-3, and no other jet transport meets that specification...
Aviaexport salesmen are moving on other fronts. Boeing and Aviaexport are competing for the sale of eight medium-and long-range transports to Egyptair. A West German building contractor has bought a giant Soviet KA-26 helicopter. Aviaexport's man in West Germany reports that he is negotiating to sell a 250-passenger TU-154 jet to a local travel combine. Now that plans for an American SST have been scrapped, some Western airline executives have been visiting Moscow to examine the TU-144 supersonic transport, which is scheduled to begin regular flights inside Russia next year...
...their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini (now Pope Paul VI) put touring lay brothers on Lambrettas, gaining for them the name "Flying Friars...
Unlike the physical sciences, the behavioral disciplines offer no absolutes. On practically any issue, "scientific" evidence is used to support diametrically opposite points of view. Take vasectomy, for example. According to one recently reported investigation, this procedure for male sterilization (in which the tubes that transport sperm are severed) makes sex more pleasurable and marriage happier. According to another, the operation can lead to less satisfying sex, and ultimately to separation and divorce...