Word: arizona
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...amazing is how bad the numbers are--even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20% of the time, well short of the corps' 75% requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months the Marines owned it. Yet it needed 600 repairs--one fix for every 15 minutes of flying time. The Osprey is far less ready for action than...
...federal racketeering suit against them. And in his final month as President, Clinton provided a raft of additional targets, including measures announced just last week to protect more than 1 million acres of federal land, such as the Upper Missouri River Breaks in Montana and a portion of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Property-rights advocates and Western Republican Governors howl that these vast protected spaces--what one Bush adviser calls "land grabs"--hurt local logging companies and property owners...
...Missouri's attorney general, he once risked a contempt-of-court citation for not enforcing school desegregation. But during four days of hearings he invoked Bobby Kennedy as a role model. "It seems there are two Ashcrofts," said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer. Even Republicans were surprised, according to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, that Ashcroft seemed "so willing" to enforce laws he had previously opposed...
...short answer is, yes, you are probably in line for deregulation. Nearly half the states, from New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia to Texas, Arizona and Oregon, are in various stages of deregulating their part of the nation's vast, $218 billion electricity system...
...numbers are - even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20 percent of the time, well short of the corps' 75 percent requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months the Marines owned it. Yet it needed 600 repairs - one fix for every 15 minutes of flying time. The Osprey is far less ready for action than the Vietnam...