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...best part is that we could make money by making peace with the planet. If governments launched a program--call it a Global Green Deal--to environmentally retrofit our civilization from top to bottom, they could create the biggest business enterprise of the next 25 years, a huge source of jobs and profits...
...cost of adding the insulation would run into the billions, which may be one reason why the FAA isn't sounding an urgent alarm. It hasn?t issued an "airworthiness directive," the FAA's term for something that must be done at once. Instead, the agency suggests that the retrofit be performed at each plane?s next scheduled maintenance check, or thereabouts. The FAA has known about the potential insulation problem for years -- its Chinese counterpart reported the problem in 1996 after a Chinese Eastern MD-11 caught fire in Beijing. Hopefully, no more fresh evidence will come along...
...Corp., the parent company of American, has been a champion at it, having shaved more than $1 billion in costs. USAir knocked back 10% of its flights. Delta laid off a large percentage of its work force. Northwest decided to retrofit old aircraft instead of buying new ones. The majors stopped, for the most part, their suicidal price-cutting wars. They curtailed their wildly optimistic purchases of new aircraft that had led them into such trouble in the 1980s. They shut down unprofitable routes, leaving many cities to the commuters...
...dilemma we face right now is how to retrofit the facility, given the regulatory environment, access codes and the like in a cost-effective solution," he says.CrimsonRebecca L. BennettMembers of a student Tae Kwon Do class practice in the MAC mezzanine yesterday...
...went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...