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...walkout. The unions suspect Boeing's move as the beginning of a plan to take assembly work out of the Seattle area. With some reason: two days later, Boeing confirmed it would move fuselage assembly on its 757 jets from nearby Renton to a plant in Wichita, Kans...
...annual Airline Quality Rating report, released Monday and co-authored by professors at the University of Nebraska and Wichita State University, is a ringing indictment of almost every major airline. While there were a few pleasant surprises, including Alaska, Southwest and Delta Airlines' relatively strong showings, for the most part the picture is pretty dismal. "The airlines promised two years ago to clean things up, and they just haven't," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon...
Russia's SS-18 missiles seemed scarier when they were pointed at Washington and Wichita, Kans. Like so much else in the onetime land of Lenin, however, the big guns have gone Big Business. Last week the U.S.-based ONE STOP SATELLITE SOLUTIONS (O.S.S.S.) announced that it had signed an agreement with the Russia-based KOSMOTRAS to use decommissioned SS-18s as launchers for commercial satellites...
...occasionally the muse is indulgent, and when it works, it's irresistible. Sliding the bar and working the pedals adds a quicksilver fluidity to the sound of picked notes, and the richness of the chords makes their guitar counterparts sound puny and one-dimensional. Stumbling through a transcription of "Wichita Lineman," I think I catch a fleeting glimpse of the promised land...
...landscape of abortion in America really change forever last week? Come take a tour. Dr. Stephen Grillot practices family medicine in Colby, Kans. In his town, a woman looking to end a pregnancy would need to drive 300 miles to Wichita to find the nearest abortion clinic. That's if she had the time and means to get away and was willing to pass the protesters to enter a building that has been bombed out and fired upon...