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Cities traditionally measure the performance of municipal agencies at annual budget drills. But Citistat regularly confronts officials with citizens' complaints about broken streetlights or inadequate policing, allowing authorities to shift personnel and resources as needed. Every two weeks, managers head to see O'Malley or his top aides on the sixth floor of city hall to account for how well they have done just that. Workers who fare well can end up with Orioles tickets; managers who fall short have wound up with pink slips. The program has saved the city $100 million, O'Malley aides say. Last year Harvard...
...Saddled with excess capacity and sluggish sales of all-new cars like the Pontiac G6, the company recently forecast a first-quarter loss of nearly $850 million. Highly profitable, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe risked looking like beached whales as record gas prices crimp sales and consumers shift to smaller models and hybrids made by rivals. (Until recently, GM dismissed passenger-car hybrids as a lousy business, though light-truck hybrids are in the works for 2007.) GM's credit rating teeters a notch above junk, and rumors of a bankruptcy filing, which GM officials persistently deny, sent...
...more likely suspect is wind shear, a collision or crossing of high-velocity winds, often during thunderstorms. Since the winds can shift from head to tail almost instantaneously, the condition is nearly impossible for a pilot to handle at relatively slow takeoff and landing speeds. Recent studies have cited wind shear as a factor in at least 27 commercial aircraft accidents since 1964. The most notable: an Eastern Airlines 727 crash on landing at New York's JFK Airport in 1975 that killed 113, and a Pan American 727 accident after takeoff from New Orleans in 1982 that left...
...gone home. Some will come back for the conclave in eight days. The secret election is sure to make dramatic television: Twice a day, the news networks will again zoom in on St. Peter?s reminding us how much is at stake. The cameraman this time will shift just off to the right of the basilica, where a rudimentary chimney will rise up over the Sistine Chapel?Gentleman, has the jury reached a verdict...
...Until the Cardinals are locked away in the conclave, we permanent Rome-based reporters will continue scouring the town in search of clues of which Cardinals are emerging as front runners. The only potential shift registered so far is that Cardinals may be forced to take into account the unprecedented reaction this past week to John Paul II's death, with pilgrims effectively demanding that the successor have at least some of the same kind of personal appeal as Wojtyla. "It diminishes the idea of a transitional Pope," a well-placed Vatican official told me, noting that such candidates...