Word: blinks
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...instant drama of nuclear war, climate change makes for bad apocalyptic porn, as anyone who saw The Day After Tomorrow knows. Even the worst-case scenarios say that climate change will happen gradually, at least on a human scale. (For climate history, it will occur in the blink of an eye.) Climate crusaders risk being seen as crying wolf should they forecast Armageddon, only to be met instead with a world that remains mostly the same in the short term, especially for the rich - but one that gets inexorably worse, especially for the poor. Global warming is very scary because...
...allowing air-taxi and corporate shuttle services to sell a seat on one for about the same price as a commercial business-class ticket. "We don't see private jets as a luxury but as a tool to save companies money," says Peter Leiman, managing director of London-based Blink, which will begin offering seats on the Continent's first microjet air taxis this month...
With a maximum flight time of three hours, microjets will shuttle corporate executives over most of Western Europe. Given that they can land on short runways, they can also use secondary airports that may be closer to customers' final destinations. Blink will fly 45 Cessna Mustangs, and later this summer Dublin-based Jet Bird will launch a rival European shuttle service with 100 Embraer Phenom 100s. More operators are expected as manufacturers such as Adam, Hondajet and Eclipse bring new microjets to the market...
...November, Eurocontrol negotiated what Hendriks calls a "gentleman's agreement" with Blink, Jet Bird and other microjet operators that they would not fly above 28,000 ft. (8,500 m), the minimum cruising altitude of commercial jets. But that agreement collapsed in April after the operators claimed that flying at lower altitudes would burn too much fuel, making it tough to operate profitably. In October, Eurocontrol will conduct a simulation in Budapest that will flood air-traffic control with hundreds of microjets. If the test suggests that the safety of larger planes could be compromised, Eurocontrol may push regulators...
...credit, HBS will blink at a lower GMAT score, as they feel that the GPA is more important,” Kreisberg said. “They will rarely blink twice, however. They won’t blink at both...