Word: pairing
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...unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot at consummation. So American probably figures it can tip those odds in its favor by confronting regulators with the anticompetitive specter of the other big carriers lining up at the barn door to pair off and divide the skies amongst two or three behemoths. But a real merging of American and Northwest? It just isn't in the cards...
...that a "Star Wars"-type missile defense system could kick off a new multinational arms race and decouple America's and Europe's security interests by isolating the U.S. behind the shield of its dreams. Expect similar resistance at Clinton's weekend summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin: the pair may finalize a deal to each destroy 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, but White House aides are setting expectations very, very low on the Star Wars discussions. "I do not expect any agreements to be reached on these issues," National Security Adviser Samuel Berger told CNN on Sunday...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded a report of a stolen pair of pants with $180 in the pocket from Robinson Hall. The pants had been left unattended...
Whitton was also the Crimson starting pitcher. As in her previous two starts, she managed to pitch herself into a difficult situation by walking a pair of batters, and then find a way to escape fairly unscathed. With the bases loaded and two outs, she got Northwestern's Jenn Shull to pop out to McKendry...
...troops will then fly into a foreign hot spot on huge, ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. The C-130-size "quad tilt-rotor" will be able to carry nearly 100 troops more than 2,000 miles. The rotors, perched at the ends of a pair of big wings, act like a helicopter's for takeoffs and landings, eliminating the need for runways. But once airborne, the rotors tilt forward and pull the plane through the sky at more than 350 m.p.h...