Word: sittings
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...heeded NTSB recommendations; neither followed through on the many reports detailing safety problems at the FAA. Looking around the table at the meeting on the security report, I'd felt painfully defeated for the first time. I couldn't continue working in a place where all we did was sit around waiting for people...
...which sank nearly $2 billion in the Tundra project, has the capacity to build 400,000 pickup trucks but will probably sell only 150,000. "The vehicles have not done as well as they expected," said Alan Baum, an analyst with The Planning Edge in Birmingham. But trucks now sit on dealer lots for 64 days before they sell. "That's almost unheard of for Toyota," said Tom Libby, an analyst with J.D. Power & Associates. "They could have cut the price but they decided not to," he added...
Between mentoring Project Runway contestants, filming your Guide to Style, and working at Liz Claiborne, do you ever sit down, take out the old sewing machine, and just make something? -Gina Chen, Troy, MII am resourceful and time-conscious and sometimes what I'll do is hem a pair of pants, do something very basic like that. I am not sitting down and creating a garment from scratch...
...might guess, things that come between a Nevadan and his land don't sit well, and over the past decade, there's been nothing more disruptive than the environmental movement's good intentions. Nye County rancher Jim Berg, 68, doesn't call himself a Libertarian, but he thinks the GOP has lost its will to keep the government from affecting his livelihood. He has plenty of war stories about his county's showdowns with the Federal Government, including a 1991 standoff when armed federales came to confiscate cattle belonging to a neighboring rancher who had let his herd graze...
...road from Basra to Al-Faw, Iraqi military commanders in Basra say the stretch of border at Iraq's southeastern tip is still the most problematic, especially for the more benign, low-profit trade in illegal gasoline. At Al-Faw's small army base, nearly 30 butane gas canisters sit in the back of a truck, which the soldiers say was confiscated that morning. "They filled [the canisters] with diesel fuel for cars and they were taking it to fishermen to sell on the black market," says Al-Faw military commander Colonel Kareem Talaa, as one of his officers pierced...