Word: cargo
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...will transfer (exchange, in engineering parlance) much of its heat to the water now flowing in the separated secondary loop. Presumably only low-level radioactivity will be passed on, and so, in a sense, the heat passing out of the system will not be accompanied by any dangerous cargo. Meanwhile, the water from the core, having yielded its heat?and thereby become denser and heavier?will flow down and out of the generator into the primary loop's "cold leg." That will carry the water back into the hot reactor, where the water will be re heated, expanded and able...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...looks like a typical small pickup truck, but Japan's Subaru insists that the BRAT DL, a four-wheel-drive vehicle with an open cargo bed that it sells in the U.S. for $5,288, is really a "bi-drive recreational all-terrain transporter." The difference is important, at least to the manufacturer and U.S. Customs. By placing two seats in the BRAT'S cargo area, Subaru is able to import the machine as a car, on which the tariff is only 3%, rather than as a truck, on which the import tax is a far heftier...
...most popular method of avoiding the 25% duty is to import trucks in two parts, in which case only a 4% tariff applies. After clearing customs, the chassis (including the cab) is joined to the cargo bed, a process that a Datsun spokesman concedes "can be performed in a matter of minutes." Toyota has a different stratagem: it builds the cargo beds in California and imports the cabs and chassis. The most ingenious ploy is GM's. Chevy Luvs are sent from Japan to Tacoma, Wash., with the chassis and bed loosely attached. The two parts are separated...
Lobbies that support capital-sapping Government regulations are equally potent and vengeful. Big steelmakers, textile manufacturers and agribusiness interests put their political muscle behind tariffs and import quotas. Wealthy shipowners lavish contributions on legislators who support the Jones Act, which requires that U.S. flagships carry all cargo among domestic ports. Small but vocal groups-the membership of the 185 U.S. antinuclear organizations totals roughly 35,000-prevent the shift from imported oil to nuclear power...