Word: priore
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...idea the team floated during early brainstorming sessions was to ask crew members to lose 4.5 kilograms each, thus lightening in-flight loads. Another was to install rest rooms next to airport gates, using the power of suggestion to encourage passengers to shed a few grams by relieving themselves prior to boarding. Someone even proposed limiting the number of toothpicks in the aircraft galley to one per passenger. These ideas were discarded, but more practical ones were quickly implemented. Korean Air removed two unused TV antennas previously mounted on the rear of all its planes. The reduction in drag saves...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire with no prior government experience, took over New York City four months after Sept. 11. So far, his CEO mayoralty, if not beloved, has been praised for its efficiency. At City Hall on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention, Bloomberg spoke with TIME's Amanda Ripley about New Yorkers, anarchists and his first convention...
With at least a dozen casualties and billions of dollars in damages expected, locals were calling it the Friday the 13th Hurricane. But bad luck was not totally unexpected. Floridians have weathered repeated deadly hurricanes, such as Andrew, which in 1992 became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But those lessons were ephemeral. People have continued to move into Florida's dense metropolises, perched on the water's edge. And virtual cities of trailer parks have sprung up alongside vulnerable inlets. Some call it hurricane amnesia, and a cure is not in sight...
...Prior to their resurgence in 1994, the Yankees were, well, awful. With a lineup stocked with such no-names as Mike Blowers, Mel Hall and Alvaro Espinoza, the Yankees were the laughingstock of the American League, which—while perhaps prompting the occasional chuckle from Boston—provided little fodder for Red Sox fans to either cheer or jeer. Even when New York captured the World Series title in 1996, the response was muted. Another season, like every other since 1918, had come and gone without a World Series victory, but there was little reason to decry that...
...Officers and the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) were dispatched to Adams House on a report of a fire alarm. A bulletin board was on fire, but extinguished prior to CFD’s arrival. CFD will be investigating possible arson...