Word: weather
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Airports take years to build, but other remedies for congestion may help in the meantime. The FAA is experimenting with a finely tuned radar that will enable airports to land planes on closely spaced parallel runways, even in bad weather. Some airports are building high-speed runway turnoff lanes so that a jet can move out of the next plane's way before coming to a full stop, thus boosting a runway's capacity. The FAA is exploring the possibility of opening military airfields for civilian use, among them El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, near Los Angeles. Boeing...
...traffic is still growing. For the first seven months of this year, the airport logged 106,458 hours of delays, compared with 67,590 at the second busiest U.S. airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield International. About 75% of O'Hare's delays are attributed to the city's blustery weather. Two new buildings may alleviate some of the congestion. The futuristic United Airlines terminal, opened in 1987, handles 90,000 people a day. A new international terminal and a people-mover system are scheduled for 1992. But what Chicago really needs is another major airport...
Shapiro, who received his doctoral degree at Princeton, pursued a successful academic career in economics, culminating in the chairmanship of the economics department at the University of Michigan. But he put his administrative prowess to the test when he helped the university weather a financial crisis the state of Michigan went through in the early 1980s...
Meanwhile, the foot-tall grass cannot be cut or it will die, Williams said. "When the weather is hot and you cut it short, it burns...
...horse bets. The Pittsburgh Steelers' owner, Art Rooney, really the city of Pittsburgh's Art Rooney, died last week at 87, still penciling the racing form. Rooney shared his hugest track windfall with his brother, a China missionary who unknowingly repaid him in soybeans. Based on a Hong Kong weather report from Father Dan, Art made another big score in the commodities market. A saloonkeeper's son, he knew a remarkable variety of athletic pleasures. As a schoolboy football star, he basked in the attention of the Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, though he went to Duquesne and Georgetown. Both...