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...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
Fast-food executives see breakfast as a lucrative area for expansion. Mornings are a time when Americans are usually in a rush. "I hate cooking in the morning," says John McKinley, a San Francisco security guard who eats breakfast at a nearby Jack-in-the-Box. "This place is right on my way to work." The half-hour saved, he says, "is well spent sleeping...
...Cola recently agreed to buy Multon, Russia's second largest juice company, for an estimated $600 million. Excluding the energy sector, mergers and acquisitions of Russian firms soared to more than $8 billion last year from $4.8 billion in 2003, according to Thomson Financial. Yet even as Western firms rush to buy Russian, at the back of everyone's mind is the nagging question, Just how big is the risk, and is it really worth taking...
...Hampshire, delivered the graduation address at Christendom College in Northwestern Virginia, a school popular with conservative Catholics. Brownback introduced a constitutional amendment in April to ban gay marriage and then headed to New Hampshire right after that trip, annoying some Washington social conservatives who felt he was in rush to be the first member to sponsor such legislation in this Congress and earn points with conservatives in key primary states...
...gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found a gun. In May, Chino was back in jail--but not before he had communicated the "rush" of shooting to other gang members...