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Meanwhile, Bush was satisfying his Republican shock troops in the West, and antagonizing greens, with this week's House approval of his plan to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. So there was little cost in offering a nod to environmentalists in the East, and what more conspicuous a target than Welch, who had enjoyed the Administration's largesse this summer and will soon retire anyway. "It's something you can give Pataki at the same time you're standing up to one of the largest companies in the world [and] striking a blow for the environment...
...that it be approved by the agency. Compliance is so rigid that it is measured in millimeters. Work cards document every step in the process and are reviewed first by the airline and then by FAA inspectors. Maintenance errors are suspected in the most recent major U.S. crash, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which plummeted into the Pacific Ocean in January 2000, killing all 88 aboard...
...plane, a critical flight surface.) In another case, also described in the lawsuit, Evergreen was instructed to inspect and lubricate the flap carriage on the wing. (Lubrication is an essential flight-safety issue: failure to lubricate an internal part properly is thought to be the leading cause of the Alaska Airlines crash.) On Dec. 15, Evergreen told AFX that both tasks had been done. Then in January, Abbott discovered not only that the flap carriage had not been lubricated but also that part of the carriage had in fact broken off. If AFX had flown the plane in such...
Even so, the dreams of an H2O bonanza can be maddeningly elusive. During the past half-century, there have been at least nine proposals for large-scale water diversions from Canada and Alaska, including a $100 billion megaproject to pipe water from James Bay in northern Quebec to the Western U.S. and a bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world...
...persuade lawmakers to vote for his industry-friendly energy proposals and get his preferred version of HMO reform through the House. And so a President not known for working overtime managed to grind out a string of victories. The House easily passed Bush's energy package, which includes the Alaska drilling provision the pundits had declared dead. His education plan moved toward resolution; the Senate even passed his $5.5 billion emergency farm-aid bill after Democrats dropped demands for more money. And the President's biggest win - the narrow passage of an Administration-designed compromise on the long-stymied patients...