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...same time, Abdullah has slashed government budgets. In February, he warned bureaucrats that they faced dismissal if they didn't perform effectively, a shocking declaration in a system that once assured every college graduate a government desk and a paycheck, work or no work. The 30,000-strong royal family wasn't spared the belt tightening: no more ignoring telephone and utility bills, he decreed, or treating the national carrier Saudia like a private airline...
...CALVIN CARRIERE, 80, renowned fiddler and zydeco music pioneer, regarded by many as one of the last links to French-Creole musical traditions; in Opelousas, Louisiana. Carriere's most recent recording was Les miseres dans le coeur (The Misery Direct from the Heart) in 2000. He was scheduled to perform in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival this April...
...continues, the government will have resigned itself to infusing boatloads of cash into the floundering rail system. Amtrak, critics grouse, has proven itself incapable of surviving without federal aid. Warrington counters that Amtrak is expected to perform like a profitable business but to provide services - like those sparsely-ridden long-haul routes - like a non-profit organization. And, he argues, while everyone complains about the money that's been lavished on Amtrak - $22 billion since the agency's inception - no one mentions that the government spent $27.5 billion in 2001 alone to keep our highways moving...
...Since this is first time out, we don’t really have a sense of how this is going to perform,” Ware says...
...spring of her senior year of high school Poage was crowned Miss Teenage San Diego, but then had to give up her title since she was going to be a full-time student on the East Coast and wouldn’t be able to perform her title duties. “It was frustrating because sponsors had recruited me to enter the competition and I won overwhelmingly,” Poage says. “But knowing I had won was enough for me.” She says she may throw her hat in the pageant ring again...