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Increasing the decibels and distractions that students near the Cowperthwaite Street construction will have to endure, City Manager Robert W. Healy last week declined to renew a Harvard permit which would have diverted noisy truck traffic away from the River Houses to nearby Banks and Grant Streets...
...industry was deregulated in 1978, but you wouldn't know it from all the extra baggage it carries. The main offenders: ever increasing taxes, lack of government spending to build a modern air-traffic-control system and airports, and countless rules imposed without consideration of how the airlines can afford to comply. All told, the airline industry is the most regulated "deregulated" business out there. The government, oddly, has been too tough on airlines in some respects (through taxation) and too accommodating in others (through anticompetitive legislation such as the Wright Amendment, which limits flights out of Dallas). The industry...
...INVESTMENT Our government must put billions of dollars into aviation infrastructure, from airports to air-traffic control to security. This needs to be done in a rational way, without rhetoric, turf wars and political pork. We need real leadership at the national level to set a game plan and stand up to members of Congress who want to waste money on local boondoggles...
...Military-intelligence officers presented the CPA with a plan to make a deal with 19 subtribes of the enormous Dulaimi clan, located in al-Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni triangle. The tribes "had agreed to disarm and keep us informed of traffic going through their territories," says a former Army intelligence officer. "All it would have required from the CPA was formal recognition that the tribes existed--and $3 million." The money would go toward establishing tribal security forces. "It was a foot in the door, but we couldn't get the CPA to move." Bremer's spokesman...
...been a fact of life for so long in Belfast that residents of the city refer cynically to "recreational rioters" - youths thought to spend weekend nights tossing bricks at each other and the police, only to retreat when the icy Irish rain or the working week intervenes. But the traffic jams that hit early Monday afternoon as commuters emptied the city were a sign that people knew something more serious was going on. That night saw the third successive outbreak of serious rioting in Protestant neighborhoods, violence that has caused another dip in Northern Ireland's roller coaster peace process...