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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: About Airport Almost Best Body Certainly Delayed Delays Does Else Enjoy Fellow Flight Information Interest Make Nothing Observations Opportunity Perhaps Prolonged Seems Text Travelers Treasure Who Word

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If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.

~Adolf Galland

Topics: American Bombing Could Day Daytime Delays Disposal Even Had Hundred Offensive Operational Our Say Stopped Sure Three Would Ah

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The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Delays Enable Freight Hour More Pace Particularly Pass Rail Slow Trains Which

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The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Budget Costs Delays Go Guilty Hence Innocent Nasa Over Paid Projects Punished Rewarded

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Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Air Air Travel Bunch Causes Delays Effect Pretty Traffic Travel

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In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.

~Anand Sharma

Topics: Any Beauty Challenge Challenges Coalition Country Decisions Delays Democracy Governance Issues Pressures Sometimes Take Will

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There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

~Antonis Samaras

Topics: Agreed Big Catch Certainly Delays Kid Must Ourselves Program Public Public Sector Quickly Sector Still Stop Up Waste Year

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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Agreement Border Costs Delays Fully Implementing Ingredient Merchandise Reduce Trade Traded Wto

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It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

~Brian Setzer

Topics: About Amp Around Big Delays Different Fooling How Loud Makes Settings Sound Turn Up You

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Leaking tunnels, congested roads, rusting bridges, and aging railways often mean one thing: lost opportunity from delays and cancellations.

~Cathy Engelbert

Topics: Aging Bridges Delays Leaking Lost Mean Often One Thing Opportunity Railways Roads Thing

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