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...Tongass, limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate sensative wetlands areas, and kept several species off the Endangered Species list. The President needed to take a stand to appease "green" voters, irate at his decision to allow logging in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest (a change of policy Clinton has called "a mistake"). White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said the President will sign the bill when it reaches his desk, probably sometime today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budget Battle Resolved | 4/25/1996 | See Source »

...majors' need to protect or expand revenues. When that happens, says Michael Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research Corp. in Golden, Colorado, the skies may grow turbulent again. "If the majors find their core market being taken [by the upstarts]," he says, "they will turn on them." Already Northwest and American have started to discount. Rising fuel prices could turn summer into a season of melting profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HIGH CAN THEY FLY? | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...figuring, and I don't know," says Charles Porter of Sky Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with 52 years of flying experience. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Dubroff: FLY TILL I DIE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the ceaselessly humming brain center for McVeigh's defense is elsewhere still, in Enid, Oklahoma, 68 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. On the 11th floor of the Broadway Tower, the tallest building in Enid's unhurried downtown, are the offices of Stephen Jones, McVeigh's court-appointed attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE STATE VERSUS MCVEIGH | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...midst of this scramble, some governments are setting up controls to keep the fight from getting completely out of hand. Connecticut, for example, has created "clawback" agreements that require corporations that fail to meet job targets to repay tax subsidies. Minnesota scaled back $620 million in aid to Northwest Airlines after it delivered fewer than 1,000 of 1,500 promised jobs. Washington has also grown concerned. Senator Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, wants the Commerce Department to decide whether companies that receive tax benefits should be required to file cost-benefit analyses and stand behind their job pledges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NO-WIN WAR BETWEEN THE STATES | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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