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...ever published of an army preparing for battle: a column of fresh-faced G.I.s striding purposefully into * the Saudi sands, a lone soldier trudging toward a tent sculpted to look like a sand dune and, in this week's issue, a muscular-looking F-15 Eagle fighter preparing for takeoff, fully armed and ready for business. Under the rules of the pool, all pictures taken by Brack must be shared with other U.S. newsmagazines and wire services; this explains why his work has appeared not only in TIME but also in Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and dozens of newspapers...
...rush down the gangway, a guard steers you to the tarmac. There you join other passengers who checked luggage: each traveler must identify his bag before it is loaded aboard the aircraft. Finally, you take your seat. But the screening has postponed takeoff for 45 minutes...
...plan's takeoff may be delayed in Congress. Some lawmakers believe that the FAA should first spend the $7.6 billion surplus already set aside in a fund for aviation improvements. Meanwhile, strain on the system keeps growing. By 2001, the FAA predicts, annual air-passenger traffic will increase an additional...
...black Stinson Reliant of fabric and spruce rests on the floor, seemingly poised for takeoff. You took your first flight in one of those graceful monoplanes in 1935. The last of the barnstormers out of Omaha had dropped in on a harvested alfalfa field. For $l.50 you rumbled through the stubble and jolted off into the air, choked with awe and fear. Above the old town, you could see the high school and your home and beyond them the vast, quilted cropland. Your world and the way you looked at it changed forever. The pilot, casual in his open, checked...
...gloomy signals, many U.S. business leaders think that the economy's so-called soft landing has already occurred and that the economy will soon be ready for takeoff again. A survey of executives published last week by Dun & Bradstreet concluded that "business optimism has reached a turning point and businesses are regathering strength for the second half of 1990." Consumers are not so sure. Their cutback in spending during the October-December quarter was largely responsible for the economy's poor performance...