The FAA says even though it limits the number of takeoff and landing slots at Newark, the airport is still scheduled at peak traffic most hours, so if a backlog develops, there's no lull in which to catch up.

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McCaw recently put some of his lieutenants from the cellular days into a company called Nextel Partners, which develops second-tier markets and feeds the traffic to Nextel.

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