Word: cargos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed in by a recent storm. Throughout the spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home Minister Kim Woo-suk warned that if the unions prolong the protests, the "government has no option but to take firm action...
...crash as a horrific consequence of a chain of irresponsibility shared by ValuJet, SabreTech (one of the airline's maintenance companies) and ultimately the Federal Aviation Administration. Volatile oxygen-generating canisters were incorrectly marked empty, packed in cardboard boxes that lacked hazardous-warning labels, and stowed in the cargo hold of the DC-9 without required safety caps designed to prevent discharges that could start a fire...
...tests, but the exercise could have left debris that may "possibly relate to the trace residues previously identified" on parts of the plane. Indeed, the PETN found on the floor of the passenger section and the RDX found at the back of the rear cargo compartment of the destroyed plane have been baffling investigators because neither deposit bears any evidence of "observable bomb damage" that might indicate the presence of an explosive device...
...carried in by the comets, asteroids and meteorites. And if life happened to form elsewhere in the solar system first, muses biochemist Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, then it's at least possible that something more complex could have been included in the cargo--not necessarily a living organism but a molecular precursor that could have given life on Earth "a kind of kick start...
...continues. Crews pulled a 75-foot section of the right wing from the ocean Wednesday, and investigators also plan to bring ashore the left wing and two intact engines which have been spotted on the ocean floor. The prevailing theory is that a bomb was placed in the forward cargo compartment, located below the first-class section. The Washington Post reported Thursday that investigators are also looking into the possibility that a fuel motor in the nearly empty center fuel tank sparked the explosion. -->