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...fuel use, very light jets will also cost some 50% less to fly, allowing air-taxi and corporate shuttle services to sell a seat on one for about the same price as a commercial business-class ticket. "We don't see private jets as a luxury but as a tool to save companies money," says Peter Leiman, managing director of London-based Blink, which will begin offering seats on the Continent's first microjet air taxis this month...
...tool is not limited to multibillion-dollar funds: CSAG is also offering a free service called the Terror-Free Calculator (http://www.terrorfreecalculator.com) Very few U.S. mutual funds have so far embraced terror-free investing. But as it expands, this device will let anyone evaluate his own mutual funds. Parametric, another big asset manager, last month produced a terror-free screen of stocks that is available through intermediaries including Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. Credit Suisse has also released a new terror-free product...
...than 750 delegates, all of whom were bound by the existing rules to vote for the candidate they were pledged to. So Ickes orchestrated a floor vote on Kennedy's call to "free the delegates"--let them exercise their own judgment as to who should be the nominee--a tool that could come in handy again this year in Denver. "We lost; the nomination was Carter's--we all knew what was going to happen," Ickes says now. But the 1980 showdown gave rise to the Hunt Commission, which re-introduced superdelegates into the process of selecting a Democratic nominee...
Using the Internet as a tool in political organizing has served the Democratic Party well, allowing it to surpass the Republicans in fundraising for the first time in recent history and giving candidates sophisticated tools with which to build grassroots organizations. While Republicans have tried to copy the online organizing model, they haven’t been nearly as successful. In fact, Obama has used his Web-driven fundraising apparatus to bring in more campaign funds than all of the candidates for the Republican nomination combined...
...impulsive more than anything else,” has taken a more methodical, regimented outlook on this particular set of pieces compared to her usual style. “Most of the time it’s impulsive and unplanned, and influenced by the availability of the tools around,” she says. “That’s how things result, not out of any intention or self-awareness of being an artist, but because of the immediacy and availability of the tool.”Hays—who has worked in Harvard art museums...