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...there's no denying that they're already pretty bad. On Friday, an FAA computer glitch caused massive delays and cancellations for hundreds of planes up and down the East Coast. This came just four days after the Department of Transportation announced that airline delays are at their highest level since 1996, when the government started tracking the numbers. During the first four months of 2007, 27.6% of flights on U.S. carriers were delayed by more than 15 minutes or canceled. That news only confirmed what people already knew after the industry suffered terrible publicity on Valentine's Day, when...
...company in New Delhi, has come to dread. During Mehta's frequent business trips in India, his flight often approaches its destination only to have the pilot announce that the plane will have to circle the airport for a while-not because there's bad weather or a mechanical glitch, but because of congestion on the ground. Mehta's plight is shared by thousands of his countrymen. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever before. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half...
...luxury as a team where if we are able to score goals we get the ball back right away because we are dominating faceoffs,” Anderson said. “Flood I think is the second-best faceoff player in the league.”The biggest glitch came when senior Carle Stenmark was carted off the field after going down with an injury in the first quarter. Although he returned to the sidelines later in the game, he did not see any more action in his final game at the stadium. The lack of offensive production early...
Hungry Quincy House residents were forced to seek sustenance in neighboring Houses Friday as a result of a renovation glitch that filled their own dining hall with dust. The dining hall first shut down at breakfast time on Friday and remained closed until Saturday morning. Crista Martin, director for marketing and communications at Harvard University Dining Services, said the eating facility was closed because of safety concerns. “Dust got into the dining area and, as a safety precaution, they closed down the dining hall until they could clean it up,” Martin said. The dust...
...polls), incorporated audience-appropriate cultural references (likening her catalog of rhetorical devices to a word list from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and took logistical details in stride (making a swift transition from highlighting video clips to asking for audience questions during a technical glitch). The tutorial “really went into the nitty-gritty, beyond the granular” of speechwriting, said David J. Baron ’07. It was one of the first IOP events that Baron, a physics and astronomy and astrophysics joint concentrator, had ever attended...