Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just like General Motors executives sitting down for contract talks with heads of the United Auto Workers, Dutch Defense Ministry officials and generals meet monthly with the brass of the soldiers' union at negotiating sessions. The union is now bargaining for overtime compensation as well as free travel on the railroads for soldiers going home on weekends, meal coupons so that they can eat in restaurants rather than mess halls and, somewhat more vaguely, general "democratization and humanization" of the army itself. Indeed, the draftees' union has been so successful that the noncommissioned officers, with three unions...
...Michael McCormick and William Fuller Jr. report that their surveys of the stratosphere with laser beams have revealed two new layers of dust at altitudes of 10 and 12.5 miles. That extra dust would enhance a well-known phenomenon: when the sun is low in the sky, its rays travel through more of the atmosphere and thus encounter more dust particles. The particles, in turn, tend to scatter the blue (or shorter) wave lengths of the spectrum more than the red, thereby causing the sky to redden at sunset or sunrise. McCormick and Fuller say that the probable source...
...hard for Petrovek to divorce his hockey life from his role as a student. He's majoring in history mostly from an interest cultivated from travel as a hockey player...
...projected adverse noise effects are not major but every effort should be made to minimize them. Possible approaches include: encourage visitors to travel by subway; provide carefully conceived street signing to minimize unnecessary "lost" traffic; shuttle and tour buses should be as quiet as possible with direct routing avoiding particularly noise sensitive areas; design and construct the building mechanical systems to prevent excessive noise; construction specifications to prevent excessive noise, particularly from pile driving...
...providing owner. It was, after all, Cerberus who guarded the gates of Hades. Mastiffs brought back from England by Julius Caesar became canine mercenaries, as famed in their day as the K-9 Corps of World War II. There are the tales, too, of faithful cats that travel thousands of miles to find their vanished owner, though thousands more prefer to abandon their homes. Cats are by nature haughty creatures, less dependent than dogs on caresses and canned entrees...