Incredible as it may seem, however, in his recent, 126-page Statement of National Transportation Policy -- much of which was devoted to addressing the critical aviation-related infrastructure problems -- Secretary of Transportation Sam Skinner made but two passing references to the contribution tiltrotor technology could make to solving such problems.

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Hull had to make a switch shortly before the start of the match when asthmatic Tongan front rower Sam Moa suffered breathing problems in the warm-up.

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Sam can say that the Americans have problems too, with the likes of David Duval and Hal Sutton, but the rest of their team is much stronger than ours.

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Sam Zell, the chairman of Equity Group Investments, opined that Europe faces problems stemming from both its sovereign bureaucracies and its aging population.

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