Word: rails
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Egyptian officials and el-Batouti's family scoff that the NTSB fashioned a chain of events before there was sufficient evidence to rule out mechanical failure. They rail against the flood of premature news leaks and unsubstantiated, sensational headlines. They vehemently deny the notion that a regularly vetted pilot with 35 years' flying experience would suddenly commit mass murder. At least three pilots and some of the 33 air force officers were in the first-class cabin, but no one tried to overpower el-Batouti in the cockpit...
...thoroughfares. Ideally, we'll attack the problem from a variety of angles, says TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo. "Different cities will try different combinations of fixes," Lacayo says. "Some communities, like Portland, have created 'greenbelts' that surround the city and contain new development. Other cities are pushing for light rail systems." Not surprisingly, proponents of development want to build new roads and expand those that exist; alternative transportation advocates and environmentalists argue that new roads simply attract new cars, leading to more overcrowding. These folks want to see new forms of transport in our cities: more monorails and subways...
...enough votes in the assembly to win. Megawati's P.D.I. party had won the single largest share of the vote in June's national elections. But subsequently the former housewife failed to reach out to other parties to guarantee herself a majority in the assembly. Muslim parties began to rail against the prospect of having a female President. Wahid and Megawati had been very close in the reformist campaign last year, but even he came to resent her aloofness after the June polls: a mobile phone he carried whose number only she knew "rarely rang," according...
...South St., Waltha.m. (Commuter Rail, Fitchburg line, to Brandeis/Roberts...
...Bold, elite haze 2) Damp old runt 3) Sod! I'm rum nerd 4) Legal bits 5) Postulate huge ignorance 6) Oh my God! I rail up urinal...