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...This dispute is just the latest chapter in a troubled program begun in 1981 to provide a troop transport for all four military services; the Army dropped out two years later for cost reasons, and then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, also citing cost, failed to kill it over objections from Congress - and the Marines. The V-22, built by Bell Helicopter and the Boeing Co., was deemed ideal for carrying troops because it can take off and land like a helicopter, then tilt its engines and rotors forward to fly like a turboprop airplane. After three fatal crashes, numerous delays...
...Work stoppages starting Wednesday night and running through Thursday will cause cancellation of nearly 90% of all scheduled train service across France, and is expected to bring public transport in almost 30 major cities - including Paris - to a standstill. The movement will also be backed by other public employees involved in a contested pension reform: limited disruption is expected in schools due to striking teachers, for example, while the Paris Opera and Comédie Français have already canceled their programs for Thursday with virtually all their public sector staff set to walk out. At issue: the government...
...having anything to do with the book. In Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, Vallejo calls Uribe's father one of Colombia's "first drug traffickers". The President's father was killed in 1983 by Marxist rebels in a botched kidnapping attempt. According to Vallejo, Escobar offered Uribe his helicopter to transport his father and brother, who was injured in the attack, from their farm to Medellin. News reports from the time, describing the failed kidnapping corroborate her account. Bad weather prevented Escobar's helicopter from landing and Uribe's father and brother were transported by land, according to the newspaper...
...Sony Bravia ad featuring thousands of colorful balls bouncing all over San Francisco. The Swedish singer-songwriter’s newest music video, “Down the Line,” is markedly darker, focusing lyrically as well as visually on human weakness. The opening scenes transport the viewer to a hazy pastoral setting, engulfed in gray mist. A figure comes riding in: half pig, half man; he’s a repulsive amalgamation, a nightmarish figure. Nevertheless, we feel pity as he goes about his solitary life. Engulfed for mysterious reasons by worry, boredom, and heartbreak (a past...
...adapt the reform to the specifics of certain jobs, companies, and sectors before passing it into law and applying it - probably next year. But as they did with the month-long strikes that crippled the nation in 1995 (and eventually led to the right's ouster from power), public transport and utility workers are seeking to derail Sarkozy's proposed pension reform before it leaves the platform by scheduling walkouts and mass protests for October 18. Other public service workers have voted to strike separately on a later date, and possibly join forces with transport workers if Sarkozy refuses...