Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was a cool if utterly cruel political logic behind the massive rocket attacks launched on the Afghan capital of Kabul last week. The city has been left completely isolated, its transport and communications links cut; there is no power or water. Foreign embassies and U.N. personnel are seeking evacuation, while perhaps 100,000 more citizens have fled...
...protect paintings. Nearby was a three-bedroom cottage, fully furnished and complete with china, silverware and napkins -- ready for the curator to move in and oversee the collection. Several former gallery executives recall that for years 2 1/2-ton trucks were kept in the gallery's garage and driveways to transport the artworks in the event of a threatened attack. Each week security staff would start the trucks' engines and make sure the gas tanks were full. By the early 1970s the plan had fallen into disfavor. "It lost its appeal when Lynchburg became more of a likely bombing target because...
...unwinnable folly. But opposition to the conflict never got him marching in protest. Nor did Watergate prompt him to activism, even though he grew so disgusted he "no longer felt allegiance to the government." What did radicalize him, he says, was "having to bundle up and transport my increasingly ill lover to a welfare office every few months so bureaucrats could go through the pointless charade of recertifying a dying man's disability to work." So he began to join group after group and march in every demonstration he could find. This month the poet and floral decorator took...
Gerst said he is seeking an entrepreneur whowill be willing to engage in a "public-privatepartnership" for river transport. He hopes toutilize the tax advantages offered for providingnonpollutive transportation...
...spared to board this train. Our well-being and our stability depend on our success in adapting to the construction of Europe." The restructuring of Spain's noncompetitive heavy industry is under way, and parliament has approved Gonzalez's plan to slash state spending and open up financial, transport, telecommunication and oil- distribution markets...