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Shoestring Taxis. According to Washington's National Transportation Safety Board, the little lines have an accident fatality rate of 7.65 deaths per 100 million passenger-miles. The U.S. trunk and regional carriers, by contrast, have a fatality rate of .25 per 100 million passenger-miles.
Such shoestring operators are responsible for most of the third level's harum-scarum reputation, but things get a bit dicey at times even on the better commuter lines. Cleveland-based Wright and TAG airlines of Detroit accounted for all of 29 ground alerts at Cleveland's Burke...
Pinsky said that UCRA is working on a shoestring budget of a few thousand dollars. Of the Harvard contributors, Pinsky added that he was very pleased because "they've been nice to us."
The scenery, by Richard W. Kerry, mixes dash and economy in a proportion certain Harvard designers, particularly those faced with shoestring budgets, ought to emulate. To Kerry's further credit, he has given his sets a faintly futuresque motif. One can admire this without buying the companion notion, voiced in...
The radical must then do two things. He must renounce in his own life the ethics of individual struggle against others for personal advancement and secondly he must try to get a foothold in Communications. The only way that the values of a better way of life, one in which...