Word: mesa
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...response elsewhere was not so gentle. A gunman murdered the Sikh owner of a Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz. "I am an American," the suspect, Frank Roque, declared upon arrest. A woman went through the phone book and made hateful calls to anyone named Abdul. A Muslim cabdriver in Manhattan kept his license out of view and didn't tell customers his first name--Mohammed--because of the fear he sensed. People asked where he is from when they got into the cab: If they are not familiar with Bangladesh, "I tell them it's in South America. And then...
...wanted a congenial space where people might gather, which is why Balbir Singh Sodhi was outside his Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz., two Saturdays ago, surveying the vinca and sage he had just planted. Says Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa, one of Sodhi's ministers: "Even though it was just a gas station, he saw it as a center of the community. He looked for innocence and sweetness and tried to capture it." Then, police allege, a man named Frank Silva Roque drove by in a black Chevy pickup and pumped three bullets into Sodhi, killing him almost instantly, mocking innocence...
...response elsewhere was not so gentle. A gunman murdered the Sikh owner of a Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz. "I am an American," the suspect, Frank Roque, declared upon arrest. A woman went through the phone book and made hateful calls to anyone named Abdul. A Muslim cabdriver in Manhattan kept his license out of view and didn't tell customers his first name - Mohammed - because of the fear he sensed. People asked where he is from when they got into the cab: If they are not familiar with Bangladesh, "I tell them it's in South America. And then...
...Mesa's admirable move raises the question of what the rest of the airline industry is doing to increase the confidence level of the flying public. Most of the effort, it unfortunately seems, is to ask the government or Congress for help and a lot of money. Many airlines refuse to talk about security measures because of concerns that just the people they are worried about would learn more about their operations to root out trouble and snuff it out. But according to aviation experts and security professionals, most airlines are not planning on following Mesa's remarkable move...
...simple as money, Ornstein and his small-airline colleagues are also embarrassing the major carriers in another area: their paychecks. Given the huge economic hit the industry has taken in the last week, Ornstein and Mesa?s president will take huge pay cuts of 50 per cent, and the rest of the carrier's management will see their salaries cut by 20 per cent. Likewise, executives at Atlantic Coast Airlines, AirTran and Frontier Airlines also announced pay cuts for its top officials...