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...company's four biggest military production programs -- the Air Force's F-15E Eagle fighter, the Marine Corps's AV-8B Harrier II strike fighter and the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter -- are scheduled to be phased out in the next three years. The C-17 military transport is behind schedule, and orders for the Navy's T-45 Goshawk trainer have been cut back. The company is also teamed with other aerospace companies in several programs that face uncertain futures. Examples: the B-2 Stealth bomber, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter, the Navy...
Inflation worries arise because state subsidies in the G.D.R. kept many prices artificially low. Rent and the costs of basic foods and public transport typically were a fraction of those in West Germany -- less than one- fifteenth in the case of rent. On the other hand, consumer durables were outrageously overpriced -- and an open market will bring them down...
Experience indicates otherwise. Pan Am Chairman Thomas Plaskett placed advertisements in U.S. newspapers to complain that Pan Am and other U.S. airlines are losing business overseas as travelers switch to the less security-conscious foreign carriers. Richard Lally, vice president for security at the industry's Air Transport Association, said that such rules in the U.S. would have a "disruptive impact on air travel." Yet superscreening may be appropriate when there are specific, credible terrorist threats...
...brought thousands of protest letters from around the world pouring into the B.I.E.'s Paris office. In Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus is no way to solve real problems of sanitation, transport and tourism," says Alvise Zorzi, author of seven books on Venice and leader of the "No Expo" groups...
...subways have long been a heaven for panhandlers, who can enjoy a captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...