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...timely dental health care options. In response to these complaints, HUHS and a task force of graduate students began to intensively reinvestigate dental care options. The task force received bids from several plans that provide discounted services on other university campuses, as well as a newly-designed plan by Delta Dental...
...Troop's Blue Platoon, dubbed the Dragoons, enters from the southeast along an artery code-named Route Corvette, into a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood. Within 30 minutes, they come under sniper fire. A three-man sniper team from the élite Iraqi Counterterrorism Task Force (akin to the U.S. Delta Force), with a pair of U.S. special-forces liaisons, takes positions in front of the platoon, scanning for muzzle flashes, as an Abrams tank 50 yards up Corvette fires its 120-mm cannon at an insurgent mortar team, followed by a burst of .50-cal. machine-gun fire. A helicopter...
...flanking movement from the west, trying to snipe at Green Berets looking to the east, sparking another long fire fight. When things quiet down, it isn't for long. Although the U.S. inflicts heavy punishment on al-Zarqawi's men, the Americans also absorb losses. During a raid by Delta Force operators of Task Force 145 in western Tall 'Afar, insurgents put up fierce resistance at a house believed to be sheltering one of the city's top al-Qaeda operatives. Eight Delta men are wounded, two so seriously that an AC-130 Spectre gunship has to give a medevac...
...business with five percent margins even in good years, the combination of bloated personnel costs, poor labor-management relations, high fuel prices and the rise of pesky low-fare, good-service airlines like Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which have been languishing in Chapter 11 for years and you get a picture of an industry in crisis. Since 2000 the airlines...
...lawyers go along. That will eventually mean fewer carriers and slightly higher fares. There will almost certainly be more mergers like the one that is already underway between America West and US Airways. Southwest, which traditionally remains aloof from its peers, recently paired up with bankrupt ATA Airlines. Continental, Delta and Northwest already have joined up in other ways, so it is possible those three airlines could become one. American Airlines, which in the past has cooperated with Seattle-based Alaskan Airlines, may want to revive that partnership...