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...turns the pilots make are intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very...
...heard that Tiger was going to be hitting on your home course's driving range. You'd want to go watch him." But Roberts was by no means invincible. Once, recalls C. Boyden Gray, a White House counsel in the first Bush Administration, when the Supreme Court shut Roberts out 9 to 0 in a commercial case, the clients were ranting about the result. "How could we lose 9-0?" they kept demanding. Roberts' wry brush-off response: "Because there were only nine Justices...
...terrorism is a very long war. It is not decided by a battle here or there. It would not have been won by stopping in Afghanistan and spending the rest of our lives going cave to cave looking for bin Laden and his henchmen. Kill him and shut the cave, yet jihadism would continue...
...Still, the leaders of the settler movement haven't given up. They planned a massive protest march this week from Israel to Gaza. Sharon last week ordered the army to shut the entry checkpoint to Gaza to prevent protesters secreting themselves in the settlements in advance of the pullout. And by Monday, when the march began, police had already banned it, although settler leaders vowed to press ahead...
That's where the controversy kicks in. In their drive to reduce working capital and improve cash flow to pay off the debts incurred during the buyout, managers can't afford to be sentimental about businesses that don't do well. They spin off, reorganize or shut down poorly performing subsidiaries. Thousands of workers can lose their jobs in the process. But what's bad for the workers is good for the company's financials...