Word: whacks
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...Last week the second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...
...right side of this issue - as long as artists keep depending on Big Business to find them a paying audience, Big Business deserves a cut of the loot - but that doesn't make it any less fun to watch them play corporate Whack-a-Mole with the Internet rebels...
...While we're on the subject of imposing economic reality, let's take a whack at the untouchables, or the "general aviation" folks. G.A. uses more than half of airport-tower services and represents 20 percent of overall traffic-control activity, but it pays just 3 percent of the costs. When it starts to infringe on pressure points - as it did last summer in the crowded New York airspace - it can back up thousands of passengers. It should get out of the way, or at least pitch in more for the services...
While we're on the subject of imposing economic reality, let's take a whack at the untouchables, or the "general aviation" folks. G.A. uses more than half of airport-tower services and represents 20% of overall traffic-control activity, but it pays just 3% of the costs. When it starts to infringe on pressure points--as it did last summer in the crowded New York airspace--it can back up thousands of passengers. It should get out of the way, or at least pitch in more for the services...
...about California's energy crisis (Column, Dec. 18) are well-taken. I strongly contest, however, the idea that the unbridled free market is the answer to this dilemma for several reasons. Ignoring for a minute the fact that Americans' perception of the supply of energy is woefully out of whack with reality (and hence so is the market's), the unbridled free market's effect on the energy situation is nonetheless undesirable. True, demand might go down in response to higher prices, but precisely the wrong group would be affected: as usual, the poor. Do we really want to fall...