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...vigilant security at airports since Sept. 11 is necessary, though that doesn't mean they censor themselves from griping loudly about the longer lines and interminable waits. Their frustration has been heard by luggagemakers, who have rushed into service a variety of conveniences to improve the situation--and to prop up their bottom lines, since they have suffered along with other travel-related industries. Samsonite, for one, will soon debut a roll-on bag complete with a padded seat that fits on the top of the suitcase so the traveler can take a load off during the hours before takeoff...
...OPENING THE VALVE A small balloon was snaked along the wire and inflated with fluid to prop open the valve...
...however, nicely benefits from such deliberate treatment. In the first scenes, each prop on the stage is in its proper place, with the rifles and pistols hung on the wall and the coat rack holding the Captain’s tunic. With time and the Captain’s growing madness, the order within the set begins to slacken. By the end of the second act, when the Captain throws a desk lamp at Laura in rage, the room has begun to slip into disarray...
Policies to prop up the steel industry in the United States are understandable and laudable; steel is a vital national security resource, and it is imperative that the U.S. be able to produce its own steel in a time of war. The key to saving the steel industry, however, is not to prevent competition, but rather to seek ways to make the steel industry in the United States more efficient and more competitive. Direct government aid to the steel industry could spur the struggling companies to reduce production costs and increase competitiveness on the global market. The development...
...personal-computer giant) and IBM (a leader in tech services and server computers). But certain key shareholders--including the children of HP's garage-dwelling founders and geek-world deities Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard--think the proposed merger is the equivalent of two stumbling drunks trying to prop each other...