Word: delta
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...unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding is supported by a recent TIME/CNN poll that posed the question that way; support for vouchers was just 40% among whites...
...trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores of substories and subthemes, most of which have branches of their own. Describing the murder investigation, for instance, Lukas launches into a detailed history of police work in both the U.S. and Britain. The book is a vast, spreading delta of information, most of it interesting and well researched, but without a strong current to move it forward...
...office on Long Island. He had traveled all four legs on Comair's 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets. He was thrilled, a feeling that commuter-airline passengers usually get only in dicey weather. "I have some reservations when I'm told I'm flying a Delta Connection flight," said Paffenroth, uttering the dreaded words that often indicate a slow, noisy, cramped trip in a turboprop. But for him this flight is preferable even to one on a bigger but crowded Delta Air Lines...
...relative comfort, speed and convenience of regional jets--the 50-seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted...
...economics and consumer preference: nearly 200 jets are on order, and by the year 2002 they will replace more than 75% of the turboprops. "There's a rapidly developing dynamic," says Mike Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research, an aviation-consulting firm. "In the next few years, megacarrier systems--Delta, United and American--will be stampeding to take turboprops out of the system and replace them with jets." Indeed, American's pilots recently agreed to allow the company to buy as many as 67 regional jets...