To fill the news vacuum it enforces on Enron and the war alike, the administration has come up with a brilliant variation on the defunct Office of Strategic Influence: creating a full-service line of infotainment.
"Cariocas don't tend to go in so much for the high-end, full-service lines of gyms, since we like a little bit of chaos," said Michel Asseff Filho, a lawyer and hotel owner in Rio, using the local term for Rio residents.
Everyone contacted by EHP for this story, including EPA sources, agrees that full lead service line replacement is preferable to partial replacement.
He said: "They have claimed to be running a full service on lines where large numbers of stations have remained closed all day".
The utility said it expected to reconnect the feeder by Oct. 7, which would allow the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to return full service to the line shortly after.
To say nothing of the fact that parts of the infrastructure will have been depreciating – that is, rotting away – for up to two decades before California even starts to see full service on the line, nevermind ridership.
Full service, people joked darkly.
On entering one of the new cannabis stores, customers are directed to either an express line, for experienced connoisseurs, or a line for "full service," where a "budtender" will helpfully guide and educate as to the effects and assorted flavors of their products.
U.S. sales of cars and light trucks reached a record 17.4 million last year, and added service requirements have led to full service bays and longer lines at dealerships that may push customers to car repair shops, research firm J.D. Power and Associates said this month.
Transit officials said express service was restored on the No. 2 line, and full service also resumed on the No. 3 trains between New Lots Avenue in Brooklyn and 148th Street in Manhattan.
