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...Bush at odds with some in Congress and the Pentagon who had no use for subtlety. "After we get our people out, we should denounce all these equivocal statements we made to spring them," a senior Navy officer griped. "And then we should bomb the damn plane on the tarmac." The White House saw that it was also still dealing with competing constituencies on the Chinese end. After 48 hours of thaw, Vice Premier Qian Qichen declared Saturday that the expressions of regret were "still unacceptable." The U.S., he said, must "apologize to the Chinese people. This...
...seeking alms. But she obviously has no experience in begging, because she's a good 10 m from the road, too far to be noticed by drivers whizzing past at 100 km/h. Passing that way a week later, I see her again, still sitting a long way from the tarmac. This time I stop. She only speaks Kutchi, the local dialect, and understands very little of my Hindi, so our conversation is hit-and-miss. We get off to a bad start. I ask her name. "Balia," she replies. Her son's name? "Balia." And her husband's? "Balia...
...percent of commercial traffic is concentrated at the 28 largest facilities, where airlines are apt to employ their "hub-and-spoke" systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds - political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when it does, the new strip will take...
...commercial traffic is concentrated at the 28 largest facilities, where airlines are apt to employ their "hub-and-spoke" systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds--political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when it does, the new strip will take four years...
...daily song. "Hello press pool my old friend./The long campaign week's at an end," he sang at the end of Gore's work-around-the-clock Labor Day trek, to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence. "We've been assaulted by a wet tarmac./We ate our way through a cheese-steak attack..." A welcome relief from the weighty world of lockboxes...