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...epic references to blood and oil, clashes of civilization. Debates concerning the war in Iraq have been deeply concerned with issues of morals—as it well should—but few have questioned the pragmatic premise that in terms of energy security, we are getting a sure boon in this war. And yet this presumption is flawed and will do nothing to secure the United States’ energy security in the long-term. Meanwhile, the energy sector is now developing an equivalent to the perverse subsidies in the agricultural sector which funnel tax dollars away from...
...boon may be coming soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions--which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots--reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Robert Brehl...
...proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't - and still aren't - considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy group in Washington: "Embraer is the risk-taking company that Bombardier used to be." A boon may be coming soon for both companies: US Airways, which just emerged from bankruptcy protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions - which complain that regional-jet pilots...
Moreover, Ellison’s policy is also a boon for graduate students, who will be able to make long-term plans with much more certainty. Pre-hiring considerably reduces the risks associated with applying for a teaching fellow position by assuring employment for the coming terms. Consequently, those who are hired will have more time to balance teaching with their own academic work and research—conducive to better-run sections. By removing these obstacles, which have made Ellison call “prohibitively difficult” the process for graduate students to become TFs. This policy will...
...midterm elections that gave the Democrats huge Congressional gains--43 House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon for Republicans as it helped convince Americans of a bedrock conservative tenet: government is not to be trusted, the people in power in Washington are up to no good. When President Reagan told us in his 1981 Inaugural Address that "government is not the solution to our problem; government...