Word: armed
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Currently, Casey says, he’s working to arm the University with information about what has happened and what will happen—a difficult prediction to make, since the dust is still settling on the post-Sept. 11 legislation...
...answer starts with lower costs. The Air Transport Association reports that other major airlines (American, United, Delta, Northwest, Continental, U.S. Airways, America West and Alaska) had unit costs--measured in cost per seat for each mile flown--nearly 100% higher than Southwest. A study by the consulting arm of Unisys concluded that the other majors would need to cut spending a staggering $18 billion just to level the playing field with Southwest. The airline "has long-term, systemic advantages the other carriers can likely never match," says Vaughn Cordle, an airline pilot who heads his own consulting firm, AirlineForecasts...
...running spat over whether Japan is living up to those contracts. Hanoi in July accused Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki of falsifying records to make it look like they are buying more local parts than they actually were. "These companies use the fact that they are big investors to strong-arm our government," complains Nguyen Van Khoa, president of the Vietnam Association of Motorcycles...
Fitzpatrick also suffers periodically from nerve problems in his throwing arm, so technically neither Harvard quarterback is always completely healthy. But both are also large men who can take hits and have proved resilient...
Wellstone may not have been a big man—the photo that I have of the two of us, standing outside the Hart building one day after walking to work together, shows him with his arm cast around my waist and his five foot-five inch frame rising roughly to just below my shoulder—but did he have spunk, and I have encountered few hearts as large as his. When he arrived on the floor and he began to speak, often to an empty chamber, he seemed so much larger than life...