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...twice a chopper's speed. As pilots like to say, military flight manuals are written in blood. The growing question around the Osprey is whether its rotor design has a tendency to push the aircraft into a roll that quickly turns into a fatal plunge. Such dives "can occur at any time and consequences are exceedingly grave," according to an unreleased General Accounting Office report circulating on Capitol Hill. "The V-22 appears to be less forgiving than conventional helicopters...
...might as well be "sooner rather than later"(a bone for his new president). And like his friend O'Neill, Greenspan put fiscal discipline above all else, suggesting that the tax cut be "phased in," along with provisions for reducing it in the face of "any disappointments that may occur...
...spite of the problems and accidents that do occur, many officials remain committed to improving pedestrian safety...
While there are thousands of airports across the U.S., more than 70% of commercial traffic is concentrated at the 28 largest facilities, where airlines are apt to employ their "hub-and-spoke" systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds--political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn...
...confusion over our political goals that allowed a terrible massacre to occur. Had we limited the movement of Iraqi tanks and helicopters, we might still have been able to hold Iraq together without allowing the Republican guard to massacre tens of thousands of Shiites. One of the hardest things was facing Shiite leaders telling us "You're now on Saddam's side." In the south that's what they'll remember. That they were told to rise by Bush, and then betrayed...