Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate members are permitted to fly on company planes if they pay the equivalent of first-class airfare on a regularly scheduled airliner. That fee is but a fraction of the actual cost to fly a corporate jet. And even that does not begin to cover the air-traffic-control and other services provided by the Federal Government...
Sometimes the welfare benefits extend beyond the companies to include their executives. The next time you fly and pay the 8% federal excise tax on airline tickets, plus a $2 surcharge to pay for air-traffic-control services, think of America's corporate bosses. They don't pay the tax or surcharge if they're flying on company planes--for business or pleasure. Though corporate jets pay a fuel tax, these revenues do not come close to covering their share of air-traffic-control costs. It works out to a subsidy of upwards of $350 million a year to corporate...
Another key question is whether scientists can learn to guide stem cells into specific paths of development. Although the Wisconsin group managed to get its cells to differentiate, the scientists had no control over what the cells turned into...
...failures from the period are being revived. Telstar, a tiny start-up company in Milwaukee, Wis., is offering a reproduction of the Predicta TV set, which was a spectacular failure when it was first introduced in 1958. The updated model has '90s amenities, such as color and a remote control, costs more than $2,000 and already has competitors...
...Total votes needed to have been switched in six key districts in order for the Democrats to have regained control of the House in Tuesday's election...