Word: armfuls
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...agency spokesman admits that the first training class--whenever it gets under way--will have only 48 pilots. The TSA also says it has no money for any classes after that. Mica plans to keep the pressure on. He has introduced a bill to close one loophole and arm pilots of cargo planes too. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...foothold on the mainland. The relationship got off to a rocky start in 1993, after Murdoch offended authorities by declaring that satellite broadcasting threatens "totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama as an old monk "shuffling around in Gucci shoes...
...going back, we can arm ourselves with the facts, we can show the rest of the world the conditions in Cuba and that’s what Castro fears most,” she said...
Leighton’s match not the only instance of poor officiating. At 197 lbs., the Pioneers’ Anthony Reynolds appeared to twist sophomore Eddie Jones’ arm well beyond what the rules permit...
DROPPED. By the GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE, Congress's investigative arm; its lawsuit, filed last year, over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to turn over records, including names of advisers, of his policy-shaping energy task force, insisting that they needed to remain confidential; in Washington. A major victory for the Bush Administration, the GAO's decision not to appeal a recent loss in federal district court was prompted, the agency said, by the "significant time and resources over several years" that the case would have required...