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...cost-cutting moves come as the KSG attempts to tighten its financial belt in order to balance its budget. At his annual “State of the School” speech at the ARCO Forum on Tuesday, Nye announced a projected $3 million operating budget deficit for the current fiscal year...
...have to tighten up things in our own zone,” Capouch said. “We run a pretty simple zone coverage, and it broke down tonight...
Responding to charges that Logan’s operations had been undermined by personnel appointments guided more by patronage than qualifications, Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift has made a series of moves to tighten the airport’s security...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced that the President would be making a series of speeches this week, it looked like the stagecraft that signals a big U-turn. Advisers had been whispering about making a "recalibration," in which the President would tighten up the message about progress in the war overseas and safety at home. Was this it? Yes, but by using big-shot Rice, the White House sent too strong a signal--sometimes even the recalibration needs recalibration. The more nuanced shift of this week, according to an adviser, is "setting things right and putting them...
There are better ways to ease the minds of wary travelers than to pander to the call for racial profiling. We can tighten airport security in visible but equitable ways, so that fear won’t drive the 38 percent from New Jersey to wish racial profiling upon others. Such measures will require small sacrifices in privacy and convenience, but better to sacrifice those than our commitment to principle...