Word: piloting
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...young officers at Maxwell Air Force Base that the nation needs new ways of thinking about warfare. Gates may still be smarting from the fact that when he was CIA chief in 1992, the Air Force refused to invest in a spy drone because it didn't have a pilot. The same kinds of disputes, most notably in the Air Force, persist today over Iraq and Afghanistan. "I've been wrestling for months to get more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets into the theater," he said at the Montgomery, Ala., base. "Because people were stuck in old ways of doing...
Conway added that Massachusetts will kick off the initiative with a campaign to inform the public of end-of-life care options, and will put in place a pilot program to find a method to capture patients’ wishes, which has been very successful in states like Oregon...
...champagne? No starlets? Don't worry; he'll get to them later. Right now, Branson is just enjoying his role as pilot of what he calls the world's first truly global airline, one that serves as a signpost to where the battered U.S. airline industry must head: scaled back, smarter, more global and perhaps even profitable. With just 122 planes, 13,600 employees and about $5 billion in revenue last year, all the Virgin airlines put together--Branson's Virgin Group has stakes in Virgin Atlantic, Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue in Australia and Virgin Nigeria...
...Freaks and Geeks” or “Veronica Mars,” these great shows had a seemingly endless lifespan compared with those like “Jezebel James.” These are the victims of televised infanticide: they make it out of the pilot-season womb only to be dashed for good three or four episodes later. And there are more of them than you might think.I’m not eulogizing “Jezebel James” because it was a great show. Hell, it even made me cringe a few times. What...
Gonen, whose company is being flooded with offers from venture capitalists, wants to grow RecycleBank gradually. But earlier this year he went after a new target: college campuses. Starting with a pilot program at New York City's Columbia University, RecycleBank is putting special kiosks in cafeterias and dorms. Each student gets a RecycleBank card and takes their recycling to the closest kiosk, where they swipe their card, weigh their recycling and claim their points. The campus model required a little tweaking on Gonen's part - the dorm kiosks, he notes, are prank-proof (you can douse them in beer...