transportation
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The second is hacking into programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, devices that are increasingly used to automate all sorts of industrialized actions from transportation to manufacturing and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
It is also used to determine federal funding for schools, healthcare, transportation and other public services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Protests in Spain tied to the country’s first general strike in over a decade disrupted cruise ports and public transportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz now involves “more vessels, ship-to-ship transfers, higher transportation costs and persistent security threats,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Atlanta had public transportation in the form of bus and rail, which made getting to those jobs easy, and Clarkston had its own rail stop—at the end of the line.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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The government approved the measure after pressure from business and transportations groups and non-governmental organizations, which claim extortion has increased.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
The group, which has not rolled out its proposal, is expected to focus on core infrastructure programs, such as transportations systems, at the expense of social spending.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
During their first meeting, the team called out the possible transportations options it might see: electric bikes, mo-peds and scooters, and then hoverboards, Segways and even unicycles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2018
“Right now this thing is so big, that sometimes it blocks the entire Mississippi River, and when that happens, my phone rings off the hook with transportations companies calling,” Cross said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
It ordered transportations without trial;—now itself is transported without trial.
From Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
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