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There are other potential negatives. Fares would probably go up on routes where the two airlines now compete. Both need to pull up their socks when it comes to customer service, once a Delta strength and always a US Airways weakness. And integrating the US Airways fleet, which favors European-made Airbus planes, with Delta's all-Boeing operation might be difficult. Also, the combined US Airways--Delta would account for 18% of the market, which competition watchdogs think is too high. But the government, which must approve the merger, gets a vote and presumably could order the merged carrier...
...loose ball, all on a play intended to be a handoff to the running back?“Everyone thinks it was a handoff,” Berg explains. “I think it was supposed to be a bootleg, because the guard I was lined up over pulled, and generally, you don’t account for the defensive tackle when you’re running a bootleg, because you figure the handoff will take care of it.”Not exactly prophetic, but the explanation is indicative of Berg’s modest, matter-of-fact...
...something we couldn’t pass up.”Of course, Harvard is not looking to give the impression that the team is just happy to be playing Michigan. The Crimson wants to compete—and the squad feels that it has the chance to pull out an upset victory.“Anything can happen—you saw with Vermont beating BC the other night” senior center Brian Cusworth said. “We look at [the Michigan game] as a game we can definitely win. We feel that we can play with...
...Precision Intervention Technique - is essentially what Bullitt was trying to pull off when he hit the black Charger in the left-rear door. If you bump another car in just the right spot, the car will spin and come safely to a stop. That's the theory, anyhow, and Scott's supervisor gave the go ahead to "take...
Forecasting is always a dangerous habit for opinion journalists. A quick perusal of the predictions made by leading conservatives in the week before the election—“Santorum can pull it out!” “Allen will never lose!” “What backlash?”—shows just how inaccurate one can be. Yet it still seems safe to say that this year’s tailgate, a huge part of the Harvard-Yale experience, will be a major disappointment...