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  2. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    This means that higher occupancy yields higher energy efficiency per passenger. Automobile occupancy varies across regions. For example, the estimated average occupancy rate is about 1.3 passengers per car in the San Francisco Bay Area, [58] while the 2006 UK estimated average is 1.58. [59]

  3. Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    The slab-to-slab height of each story is 10 feet 2 inches (3.10 m), [22] although the ceilings in each room are 8 feet 2 inches (2.5 m) high. [22] [25] The superstructure is divided into square modules, each with two guestrooms, two bathrooms, and two dressing rooms. There are steel columns at each corner of each guestroom, which are hidden ...

  4. List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United ...

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    Officer Scott Smith shot Franklyn Reid to death during a foot chase. The following month, Smith was charged with murder in Reid's death, and was sentenced to 6 years of prison in 2000. The conviction was appealed, and Smith pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of criminally negligent homicide, and received two years of probation. [46 ...

  5. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Coal sold in Cincinnati for 10 cents per bushel (94 pounds) and in New Orleans for 14 cents. [76]: 403–21 Charcoal production was very labor and land intensive. It was estimated that to fuel a typical sized 100 ton of pig iron per week furnace in 1833 at a sustained yield, a timber plantation of 20,000 acres was required. The trees had to be ...

  6. Big Dig - Wikipedia

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    The result was a 62% reduction in vehicle hours of travel on I-93, the airport tunnels, and the connection from Storrow Drive, from an average 38,200 hours per day before construction (1994–1995) to 14,800 hours per day in 2004–2005, after the project was largely complete. [46]

  7. Boeing 747 - Wikipedia

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    The -200 was the first 747 to provide a choice of powerplant from the three major engine manufacturers. [164] In 1976, its unit cost was US$39M (208.8M today). A total of 393 of the 747-200 versions had been built when production ended in 1991. [165] Of these, 225 were -200B, 73 were -200F, 13 were -200C, 78 were -200M, and 4 were military. [166]

  8. Nissan Leaf (first generation) - Wikipedia

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    The Altra EV was in production from 1998 to 2002, with a limited production of approximately 200 vehicles primarily used as fleet vehicles for companies such as electric utilities. [2] During the same period, Nissan also developed the Nissan Hypermini , conducting a demonstration programme and selling a limited number to government and ...