He knew being a realistic man as well as a crashingly impractical one, who once missed Greta Garbo's glass by a mile when serving her at Chateau Lafite, and also drove a horse and trap through a gate only wide enough for the horse that co-ops were hard to create.

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Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, explains that no wide-area wireless network can afford to build out wide-area data capacity to handle bursts of demand for wireless data that change from airport gate to gate every 30 minutes or so.

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Industry-wide, the major international airlines on average delivered 77.64% of their flights to the arrival gate within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival time.

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