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...resolution. With Walsh and his union counterpart sequestered in a London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before the end of his shift if he had completed his list of tasks, staff at the new terminal will return to their base after each individual job before being assigned another. Such deals...
...room painting a panel for an upcoming mural. She'd ordinarily be sitting at home watching TV, Mathieu said, but on this day she was giddy about the pending arrival of a group of Irish students who have been collaborating with the Philadelphia teens on a mural called Common Ground. As Mathieu talked about raising money for a trip to Dublin to work on a project next summer, she was asked how two such seemingly disparate groups overcame the challenges in creating such a big (180 ft. by 30 ft.) and coherent piece. "Come on now," Mathieu said, aghast...
...benighted regions of the world. Bush wants to show, says counselor Ed Gillespie, that, "we have done this kind of transformative work before and the benefits to America made the sacrifices worthwhile." Those arguments intend to capitalize on momentum created by the reports of recent military progress on the ground in Iraq, and to blunt criticism of the lack of political reconciliation to accompany...
...emerges. It also seems that the U.S. attempt to build an Iraqi army and police force has been a failure. Some units are pretty good, but most are unreliable, laced with members of various Shi'ite militias. This was clear from my conversations with U.S. combat officers on the ground in Baqubah, Baghdad and Yusufia. It became clearer when seven enlisted men serving in Baghdad wrote a very courageous Op-Ed piece in the New York Times on Aug. 19 in which they said, "Reports that a majority of Iraqi army commanders are now reliable partners can be considered only...
...after 9/11 if it had been a mistake to place the command center in a known terrorist target, he said no. "You had to put it somewhere," he said. And he noted that the Secret Service and the CIA also had offices in that building. The center was above ground level, leaving it less prone to flood damage (a serious concern in lower Manhattan), and it was within walking distance of City Hall - one of Giuliani's priorities. "In hindsight, it's pretty bad," says John Farmer Jr., senior counsel to the 9/11 commission and the person in charge...