A spokesman for Mr. Friedman's day care center, Dan Klores, said, "The Parkshore nursing home hasn't done anything wrong, runs a first-rate facility, and anyone is welcome to see it at any time".
"We'll have a first-rate facility," said Daniel J. Molloy, assistant general manager for capital development at Hartsfield-Jackson, who said that congestion, growing rental-car use and lack of land immediately surrounding the airport had contributed to the decision to build the 70-acre rental-car center a mile away.
In Seattle's case, an arena remodeled with considerable public effort in 1995 and praised by Commissioner David Stern of the N.B.A. as a first-rate facility was suddenly declared obsolete and unworthy of housing the team a mere seven years later.
What is needed are the same things that have been needed all along: a vast program of infrastructure repair and renewal; an enormous national investment in clean energy aimed at transforming the way we develop and use energy in this country; and a transformation of the public schools to guarantee every child a first-rate education in a first-rate facility.
The club also has the Rocky Mountain region all to itself and a first-rate facility in Coors Field, which opened in 1995.
"Continental did a great job converting Newark [Airport in New Jersey] from a second-rate facility to a premier gateway," PaineWebber's Samuel Buttrick says.
"We definitely have a first-rate facility here," said councilwoman Shirley Gonzales, who represents the area.
A quick recap of The World According to Dick: the ends justify the means, the invasion of Iraq was right (even though the justification for it was wrong), Guantanamo is a "first-rate facility" that should remain open until "the end of the war on terror" (though, he admits, "nobody knows" when that will be).
It will take more than first-rate facilities, which is why a liberal business environment is being fostered, alongside an openness to foreign labour.
The schools superintendent, Donald B. Trombley, said things could be even better if the two high schools were consolidated, so that students could have first-rate facilities and more advanced courses.
Sellers had also surmised correctly that the football players had experienced inequality through the sport they loved: second-rate facilities and equipment, road trips without any stops at restaurants or to use public restrooms.
