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...mention all this not to heap slag or prognostication--the journalistic equivalent of slag--upon the Edwards campaign but to give you a sense of what life is like for nearly every one of the candidates dragging themselves defiantly through Iowa in the final weeks of this campaign. No one knows what's going to happen--and almost everyone appears to be losing ground, slipping on the Iowa ice, with the possible exceptions of Barack Obama and, on the Republican side, Mike Huckabee...
...billion duopoly of airplane manufacture, however, the question is: For how long? The two companies enjoy one of the more entertaining rivalries in business, never passing on an opportunity to slag each other's products. While many clients think the 787 is the best solution for the increasing demand in the point-to-point market, for instance, Airbus knocks the 787-8 as too small. Tinseth says Boeing initially wanted to make the 787 larger, but airlines talked the company out of it, trading size for range, so the new aircraft could replace the 767s in their fleets. "We still...
...began scaling the craggy flanks of Tonelagee Mountain, the haze lifted momentarily to expose a breathtaking spectrum of color and texture: tracts of lavender heather, russet and burnt-gold rushes, somber rock, downy moss, a thousand shades, of green rushing streams, fern-limned pools, and glistening earth and slag. The slate-grey sky rendered every other hue all the more dramatic. This close to the earth and the sky, this deep and this far within the terrain, there was nothing between me and the poetry of the place...
Poland's Roman Catholic station Radio Maryja (pronounced Maria) has always blended the sacred world of faith with the profane arena of politics. Its archconservative commentators love to slag off the "evils" of the free market and the perils of joining Europe. But this month they acquired an opponent tough for them to dismiss. After one pundit declared that Jewish groups were "humiliating Poland internationally by demanding money" for property expropriated during World War II and likened their efforts to a "holocaust industry," the Vatican itself decided this was the last straw. It instructed the Polish Catholic church to prevent...
...showed a 45% leap in passengers and 16% in profits. That success is due less to subsidies than to relentless cost control. Now the company is eyeing expensive trunk routes like Milan/Rome and Barcelona/Madrid, where the major airlines rule the roost. So don't put Ryanair on the slag heap just yet. The European Commission may make all discount airlines play by the same rules, but it hardly wants to ground them...