The commission also ruled on a three-way alliance between Germany's Lufthansa, America's United and Scandinavian Airlines System, demanding that 108 slots, mostly at Frankfurt, be given up and some flights cut.

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So, Nevada, I need you to help me recruit 100, 000 new math and science teachers, improve our early education system, create 2 million more slots in the community colleges so workers can get trained for the new jobs that are out there right now.

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The RetroN 4 will have four cartridge slots as well as two controller ports for each system, allowing for users to use their original controllers.

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While the enhanced system is just a prototype without a commercialization schedule, it already slots into just about any car, including the University's own intelligent car prototype (not pictured here).

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This particular system has been dinged by other outlets for its lack of upgradability (the RAM slots are especially elusive), but I have to call that criticism into question.

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In future this opaque system, which is copied in most other countries and through which take-off and landing slots are combined to become routes, should be replaced by an open auction, with safeguards to stop any airline becoming too dominant.

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