Word: short
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...would probably say that one that helps build a foundation under the value of their own homes is high on the list. The process may create an atmosphere that looks and feels like socialism, but if the net effect is that the drop in housing prices is reversed in short order, even free-market advocates may tolerate this plan rather than watch the world burn...
...whom should the U.S. talk? A direct conversation with the Supreme Leader may not be feasible in the short term, but one expert who has advised the Obama Administration on Iran policy argues that the U.S. can still talk over Ahmadinejad's head to Khamenei. "We should aim our rhetoric at Khamenei," says the expert, who asked not to be named. "He will decide whom to appoint [to talk with...
...September 2007, shortly after TIME ran a story about the apparently successful return of speedy turboprop planes for short commuter flights, the manufacturer of the Q400, the same type of plane that crashed in suburban Buffalo last night, requested that all such aircraft with at least 10,000 cycles (a single cycle is a take-off and a landing) be grounded for inspection. Bombardier said it was a precautionary move after two accidents (one in Denmark, the other in Lithuania, both involving aircraft owned by SAS) involving its bestselling Q400 in a space of three days. In January...
...rocketing price of jet fuel has prompted the industry to rethink its jets- first strategy on short-haul routes (less than 500 miles, or about 800 km). Seattle-based regional carrier Horizon Air, owned by Alaska Air, was a hard sell on the Q400 until it couldn't get deliveries of the CRJ-700, a 70-seater regional jet, from the Canadian company. So Horizon grudgingly ordered 12 turboprops, and the airline hasn't looked back. "We found out very quickly that the Q400 was a completely different animal," says Pat Zachweija, until recently a top executive at Alaska...
...even in the eyes of many in his movement, gambled everything on the willingness of the U.S. to press the Israelis to deliver a credible two-state peace solution and lost. Now many of those in Fatah are inclined to bet on a third intifadeh. After all, in the short term at least, the status quo works for the Israelis - as long as there are no missiles raining down on Israel from Gaza. But for the Palestinians, the continued occupation in the West Bank is untenable. And it will not have been lost on Fatah activists that Hamas' more confrontational...