Word: slow
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...Mayor Nagin, who has been criticized of late for remarks about the slow progress in rebuilding New York's "hole in the ground", predicts a boom is in the making with $60 billion in construction-related funds about to pour in from federal and state sources, including the Road Home program giving homeowners up to $150,000 to rebuild. Ragan says prices for homes are already up 5% to 10% in July. While Uptown is hot (31 properties sold in July), New Orleans East is not (14)."There are houses never even touched since Katrina out there," says Ragan. "People...
...might be a hoax," the 41-year-old schoolteacher wrote, "I would appreciate it if you state, 'It is my strong judgment - correction, that I know that this is not a hoax, that the communication should be taken very seriously.'" Karr added that the fact that he had been slow in revealing himself as the killer should be further proof "that I was not seeking overnight notoriety." But in a separate passage, he writes: "I want to discuss the book and our collaboration. There must be some way we can manage it." As it has become clear that Karr...
...wetlands have to be preserved, because they slow down the storm and decrease the storm surge. "The wetlands protect the levees, and the levees protect the people," says Dale Hall Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife services. He points out that for every 2.7 miles a hurricane travels across a marsh, the storm surge is reduced by one foot. "We have to focus on rebuilding those wetlands for the future - or it's going to get even worse as storms come in," Hall says...
...Last fall, the NTSB said that runway incursions were among the NTSB's "most wanted" improvements. It also said that existing runway safety procedures are insufficient and criticized the FAA for being slow to make improvements. Sometimes large safety issues can be solved with small changes like lighting and paint. Although it has not been ruled that poor signage or lighting is involved in the Comair crash, it has been an ongoing issue that safety experts have been trying to fix. An FAA test project to make runway markings more visible that was begun at T. F. Green Airport...
...move reflects a vulnerability in Ryanair's business model: O'Leary has turned the Dublin-based carrier into Europe's most profitable airline by cutting airport turnaround time to a minimum to keep his planes aloft as much as possible. That means discouraging any behavior that can slow his planes down, including checking baggage. But O'Leary may have the last laugh. Unlike regular airlines, Ryanair charges a fee for each bag that is checked: up to $9.50 apiece, if passengers register bags at the airport rather than paying for them in advance when buying their ticket. According to Ryanair...