Word: airporters
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Currently, the council budget is about $120,000 per year. With that money, we fund well over 100 student groups with average grants of approximately $300. In addition, we spend about $30,000 per year on Springfest, Yale-game events, holiday shuttles to the airport and the first-year Formal. Increasing the council's budget could provide $100,000 more for student groups while simultaneously adding about $20,000 to the other activities (the great majority of which would go to improving Springfest...
Foshko's sponsor, legal recruiter Gelin, met her at the airport and promptly whisked her off to the National Gallery and then a movie...
...other business, the council voted on and approved a resolution joining Boston, Chelsea and other communities in opposition to a Massport proposal to build a new runway at Logan Airport which would lead to increased air traffic over those cities and over Cambridge...
Should the most biting joke in an animated comedy about Manhattan in the year 3000 be that the city's airport has been re-named the John F. Kennedy Jr.? Probably not, but we don't get much more than that in Futurama, the latest from Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. The show lacks the vision of The Simpsons, the snappy rhythm and the kind of far-reaching humor that keep it dizzyingly smart even after a decade on the air. Is there anything good to say about Futurama? Sure, it's better than Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza...
...British scientists had refined the technology, and the government began to dot the coast of England with civil-defense radar stations. As the hardware got simpler, radar found its way into airplanes, boats and air-traffic-control towers, improving navigation and ensuring that even a cow-pasture airport could operate safely. By the end of the century, the same basic technology was being used to steer spacecraft, track storms and help police catch speeders--proof that even the most arcane science can pay very pedestrian dividends...