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...what you've always dreamed: getting a good night's sleep aboard a plane. If you'll be flying out of Arlanda in the morning, the hostel is just a 10-minute walk from the airport's check-in desks. There's also a café on board, flat-screen TVs, free wi-fi and a viewing platform on the left wing. Jumbo Hostel's 25 rooms are shared, as are the bathrooms in the corridors, but there is one private room with an en suite bathroom available in the cockpit. Beds start at $45 per night. Arlanda Airport, Stockholm...
...will nod at you understandingly, knowing the oddity and cogency of dreams. You get up and go to work, sit in board meatings. You are sane...
...December 19th when President Bush announced that Chrysler, along with GM, would receive $13.4 billion of emergency loans from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after Congress had refused to pass a separate bailout bill. On Christmas Eve Cerberus got another last-minute gift when the Federal Reserve Board voted to permit GMAC to change its status to a bank holding company. (GM still owns 49% of GMAC). (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...minutes later, Lovell typed the instructions for the engine burn into the on-board computer, and the computer flashed back "99:40," which was code for "Are you sure?" Lovell hit the Proceed button. The engine lit and the burn worked exactly as scripted, inserting Apollo 8 into an initial lunar orbit 169.1 miles high at its peak and just 60.5 miles above the lunar craters at its nadir. Even before the crew re-emerged around the other side of the moon and back into radio contact with Houston, Anders snapped what is surely the most iconic photo...
Some compromises have been proposed, such as one put forth by William Gould, a former Clinton appointee as head of the National Labor Relations Board. Gould suggested keeping the secret ballot but reducing the extensive delays in holding such elections. "Gould's proposal eliminates the politically most potent argument against the Employee Free Choice Act, that secret-ballot elections supposedly better represent the true preferences of employees than do signed union authorization cards," says Gregory Saltzman, professor of economics and labor management at Albion College in Michigan...