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...Citizens…are realizing that they don’t want School Committee members who are going to micro-manage and try to influence behind closed doors,” he said. Fantini said Walser attempted to change the redesign of Cambridge Rindge and Latin at the eleventh hour...
...huge advantage in the airline business. While the major carriers focused largely on a $15 billion financial bailout and convincing Congress to take over the costs of airport security, small airlines went to work on on-board safety. Given their tiny fleets, enthusiastic employees and more nimble management, micro-carriers like JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines were able to have entirely redesigned, and reinforced cockpit door designs within two weeks. Officials from both airlines tell TIME that they are also making plans to install hidden cameras to monitor the passenger cabin from the cockpit."Past practice has been to wait...
Winemakers from as far as Australia and as near as the Napa Valley are discovering what the pioneers have always known: the fertile soils and varied micro-climates from Monterey to Santa Barbara are capable of producing world-class wines--at consumer-friendly prices...
...fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet?s flushing suggested waves breaking against the prison walls. Welles had used the same trick in "Les Mis?rables...
...began their four-year course at the technical college here in Le Locle in 1999, their class contained 17 students. Seven are left today. They've spent the past year hand-tooling and assembling the 92 minuscule components that make up a Zenith Marine Chronometer - a complex piece of micro-engineering that is as technically obsolete as the manual typewriter. Yet nowadays, that kind of obsolescence fetches premium prices. "The boom today is in complicated mechanical watches for the luxury market," Antoniotti explains...