Word: backyarders
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...systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds--political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when it does, the new strip will take four years to complete. Memphis international airport needed 10 years to get its new runway approved and an additional...
...easy for a man who owns a waterfall--and has managed an oil company--to discuss the privatization of the environment. Bush will always have his backyard, and one can almost guarantee that no pollution will ever touch that domain. Yet the environment affects--perhaps with even greater impact--those who do not enjoy such privileges. Their experience of the environment, almost certainly, should not be restricted to private resorts on government land; they should not have to bear the cost--in economic and in public health terms--of the exploitation of natural resources at the hands of those...
...refused defeat but stayed within the bounds of the law, constructing a dummy rifle from an Internet printout that simulated every aspect of my Izmash, right down to a laser system to register a hit or a miss. I practiced with this mockup out in the shed in my backyard until I cleared the permit with the cops and got the real gun. The man can't touch...
...here I am, on a real biathlon course, on the right skis, shooting with the right kind of rifle at the right distance. It is a strange sensation to have something imagined for a long time take shape in reality. All the time spent out in the backyard aiming at a target only a few feet away, and all the time "skiing" on pavement without a trace of snow in sight, is now being translated into the real thing...
...husband Stephen lived on Medicaid and $512 a month in Social Security in a quiet blue-collar cul-de-sac in tiny Bangor, Maine. But they managed to pay $78,000 in cash for that roomy house at the bottom of Hershey Avenue, with a swing set in the backyard. They forked over an additional $17,000 for a Ford Econoline van. Not until drug agents raided the place did neighbors know how they were able to afford...