Word: transportion
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...ambitions of its sailors and the increasing power of its merchant class: Confucian ideology venerates authority and agrarian ways, not innovation and trade. "Barbarian" nations were thought to offer little of value to China. Other factors contributed: the renovation of the north-south Grand Canal, for one, facilitated grain transport and other internal commerce in gentle inland waters, obviating the need for an ocean route. And the tax burden of maintaining a big fleet was severe. But the decision to scuttle the great ships was in large part political. With the death of Yongle, the Emperor who sent Zheng...
...city was prepared to evacuate the center and transport individuals to alternate locations that still had electricity, but city officials decided against such a drastic move after learning that power would be restored relatively quickly, according to O’Connor...
...Russian programmer whom the FBI had locked up for the better part of a month before he was freed on bail Monday, pending arraignment later this month. He wrote a little program that allowed you to take e-books, specifically ones in the Adobe e-reader format, and transport them wherever you liked. And he didn't even do that in this country, he did it in Moscow, where such a thing is perfectly legal. But Adobe purchased a copy of this software through a third-party vendor, and suddenly accused Sklyarov of "trafficking" it. He had the misfortune...
...archaeologist at Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University. More important than the bones, says Eshel, is a zinc coffin also found nearby by Dubay and Walker. Zinc has never before been found in burial artifacts from the Essenes' time. That signals an important, probably wealthy person was transported from far away, sealed inside the zinc to keep the corpse from smelling during transport. Qumran, then, must have been significant to more than just the ascetics on the cliffs...
Whatever the reason for my former lack of driving ambition, I have been recently plagued by the fear that I will never get my license and will end up as one of those little old ladies who have to rely on shuttle buses to transport them from place to place. Yes, I know I’m crazy, but sometimes insanity spurs us to action—so I have made learning to drive my summer mission...