"No one's ever attempted anything on this scale, " Vice said of this spring's planned air drop.
In a three-week period last month, an American marine battalion, tasked with taking control of Garmser, a Talibanised district of southern Helmand, called in one air strike, to drop a 500-pound bomb.
Rescue workers on rubber boats could not reach them because of narrow alleyways, and two air force helicopters were deployed to drop water and food packs to the marooned villagers, the Associated Press reports.
By giving options to loyal shareholders, the government is guarding against the risk that its stake might drop below 50% should Air France swap equity with another airline in an alliance.
If the regulating valves fail or if the cabin structure is breached (by a failure of a door or window for example) then the pressure in the cabin would suddenly drop to match the outside air pressure.
Paul McShane's cross from the right was headed back across goal by Jan Venegoor of Hesselink and, after Martin Skrtel could only flick the ball up in the air, Geovanni waited for it to drop on to his left foot and directed it into the corner from 10 yards.
Executives at General Electric and Whirlpool say consumers should expect networked homes and neighborhoods by 2012 and a drop in overall energy use of air conditioners, refrigerators and clothes washers by 50% to 75%.
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Spencer Birns, Cardiff Airport's head of commercial operations and air services development, said the bulk of the passenger drop was due to bmibaby's cuts to routes and frequency of service.
In a worst-case scenario, air travel, tourism and restaurants would see a 20 percent drop in business, the report said.
In response, government officials have had to drop rhetorical opposition to strong measures to clean up the air.
But this big of a drop is surprising considering how little competition was on the air and how much pre-season momentum NBC has had lately.
The clip was shelved after production when the monetarist camp in his campaign led by Milton Friedman convinced him to drop it, although it did make it on the air by accident.
Since 2000, reports the Air Transport Association of America, there's been a 21% drop in passenger volume for flights of 500 miles or less.
Yet a professional tennis player can't lob a ball a few feet into the air and hit an overhand smash without being able to hear a pin drop?
Executives attribute the drop-off to rising jet fuel prices, combined with declining air travel.
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The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve have also sent six C-130 aircraft specially set up to drop water and fire suppressant on the fires.
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Several hundred metres east, another platform appears to be suspended in thin air, with only rusted designer steel and glass plates separating you from a 200m drop to the Trollstigen valley below.
Music is loaded via drag-and-drop, Disc2Phone PC software, or using an "over-the-air" provider of choice.
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On the horizontal axis of each graph, we have total traffic-related air pollution exposure, increasing in parts per billion (a part here would be a drop in a billion drops) from left to right.
Energy consumption would drop by 80 percent since memory-based systems consume less energy and require fewer air conditioners.
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Yet because AIR lets SlideRocket tap into the storage of a PC, it has a drag-and-drop file system similar to Windows Office.
"Birds have very intensive breathing, and such extreme levels of air pollutants have definitely affected them, " he said, explaining that it was possible for birds to basically drop dead from the skies.
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