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Walsh will have to push hard for growth in other markets to compensate for this hit. From next summer, BA plans to launch a new service between the U.S. and major business centers in Continental Europe, flying reconfigured 757s from its existing fleet. While he is guarded about the fine details, "getting a new airline up and running in a little over 12 months," as Walsh sees it, "is a great test of how quickly we can respond." And if things take off, he's even promising to share the acclaim...
...score with the excellent songs written for the 1978 film (including "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "You're the One That I Want"). Best of all, she doesn't poke us in the ribs to make sure we're getting the parody of '50s clothes, styles and attitudes, or push for more social significance than the fragile little spoof can bear - the way, for instance, Hairspray and Legally Blonde do just down the street...
Then the fair's reigning Pork Queen, Rita Cook, escorted the senators off to see Big Red, the fair's biggest boar. And while many jokes were made about pork barrel spending, Thompson was quick to stress that one of the central tenets of his campaign is a conservative push to cut spending - particularly from entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which he called "gradually bankrupting future generations in this country." In his soapbox speech, he accused other G.O.P. candidates of ignoring the budget, "other than giving lip service to it," he said...
Until they win a change in sentencing guidelines, activists hope to win support for their cause simply by spreading the word. They hope a planned wide release of a documentary entitled Lockdown USA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, will help restart a push for reform. "The problem is that they are using a prison cell to address what should be public health issue," says Gabriel Sayegh, a project director at the Drug Policy Alliance. "This isn't the criminal justice system we're supposed to have in this country...
...Hopefully I’m able to push through it and do it,” Wilson said. “Maybe only in dreams, but right now it’s a dream just to be playing...