Word: nonstops
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...China with its own laws, a set-up known as "one country-two systems." Nowhere is the demarcation more striking than at its border with Shenzhen?a line that Hong Kong people can cross freely but most mainlanders can only gaze at. The one-way traffic has become a nonstop flood: up to 200,000 people a day, 100 million crossings a year, numbers likely to triple by 2010. (Currently the border is open 16 hours a day; some want it to be 24/7.) Hong Kong businessmen have poured $15 billion into 70,000 firms in the border province...
...since current rates for using the air traffic system and the airport facilities are so low that airlines send in squadrons of smaller planes to spread choice for the consumer throughout the day. Last year, before managers at San Francisco International Airport threatened penalties, one carrier was offering 30 nonstop flights to Los Angeles over a 17-hour period. At one point, two separate flights were only 11 minutes apart, and there was a 15-minute difference between two others...
...There are lots of solutions out there: more runways; higher prices for flying at rush hour; incentives for airlines to use larger aircraft that take up proportionately less space and time in crowded airports; encouraging, or forcing, use of secondary airports; gagging members of Congress who insist on nonstop, cheap flights from Podunk to Major Metropolis; and even (anti-government types should skip this part) reinstitution by the FAA of slots (that is, landing and takeoff rights) at the most delayed airports...
Andrew S. Lazzaro, HBS `01, is tired of the "nonstop, incessant jackhammering" at early hours in the morning from general construction in the Soldiers Field Park area...
...know a guy loves music when he says he'd eat noodles and catsup at every meal if it meant he could write songs nonstop. "We don't have a choice," Arnthor Birgisson insists. "We can't stay out of the studio." Says his hit-making partner Anders Bagge: "I don't want to do anything else - writing fills my soul...