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This spring the Personal Watercraft Industry Association started distributing safety videos, posters and user instructions to dealerships. The association has also drawn up its own suggested regulations, which include a minimum age of 14 for riders of privately owned vessels and 16 for rentals. "The reason it's been a zoo out there is because there has not been any regulation or guidance," says Roger Hagie, chairman of the P.W.I.A...
...consumer goods that are moved in containers. Still, the canal remains competitive in the movement of bulk cargoes, such as wheat and coal. Last year traffic through the canal reached almost 156.5 million tons of cargo, the second highest load in canal history. The U.S., the canal's largest user, sends 13.7% of its international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily on the canal for food imports. A shipment of grain from the U.S., for instance, would take about 20 days longer if it had to be rerouted. Even so, traffic may peter...
...acronym for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment), used by 14,000 agencies to keep up with some 45 million different fares at 281 airlines. United's Apollo, the second largest, is used by 10,000 agencies. Last year the SABRE system brought American profits of $134 million, mainly in user fees collected from such airlines as Pan Am and Southwest, which lack systems of their...
...believes few retire voluntarily. "Some make it out," he says, "but this crank business is getting bigger. It's no longer limited to the backwoods, bikers and interstate truckers. It seems to me that I'm seeing as many arrests for possession of meth as for cocaine, and my user clients caught with meth are frequently young professionals and students. The business may be terrible -- it is terrible -- but you're looking at capitalism in action here. I wonder if it may be building toward critical mass...
...Little can not trip up the device, since it recognizes the physiological characteristics that produce speech, not sound or pronunciation. Using this device is as easy as saying "Open sesame." Such major corporations as Hertz and Martin Marietta rely on the technology to protect their computer systems, and these user- friendly voice analyzers could be especially attractive to homeowners and small businesses...