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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...
...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...
Rupert, who built a corporate giant from a backyard cigarette factory, has been a crusader in enlightened business practices. His company led the way in establishing pay and fringe-benefits standards for black workers during the apartheid years. Now, with the ambitious conservation project roaring to life, he has earned a new kind of title: Anton Rupert, bio-diplomat...
...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...
...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...