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...with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt, of how to transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into the trunk with minimal effort. But don't plan on carrying more than a few Twizzlers since only a sliver of cargo space remains...
...Wagoner's shoulder strap. "Trust me. They're nice to have," says the tall and stocky former Navy SEAL. "It's for two-legged animals as well as four." Once shuttled to the Lake Charles Municipal Airport the group sits for an hour or more awaiting helicopters to transport them. "It's get geared up and then you wait," says Bond. "Unfortunately, that's how disasters work...
...government guarantee. Yet for days it appeared the feds might foist much of the obligation on state school systems, 47 of which are hosting Katrina students. Most evaluated the problem and decided to teach first and ask questions later. "If that 6-year-old kid coming off that transport plane was yours, how would you want him taken care of?" Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee asked TIME. Huckabee hopes for federal reimbursement, "but if not, we will have done the right thing, and I believe we will have no regrets about how we handled matters...
...TAXES They have to be made more rational. Congress has found the ultimate cash cow in the U.S. airlines, which pay 14 separate taxes. The Air Transport Association says the industry is going to lose $10 billion this year, but the government is taking $15.2 billion in special aviation taxes and fees. If the industry were to pay only one-third of its taxes for 2005, it might break even! Few passengers realize that more than 20% of the average $200 ticket is taxes and fees. The government is hooked on those revenues like a junkie and can't seem...
...also asks, “Why did the city not use its substantial public transit assets to aid in the mandatory evacuation of the city?” In fact, several articles from the New Orleans Times-Picayune made clear that public buses were used to transport people to the Superdome...