The passenger experience is a key differentiator used by airlines to attract and retain custom and the fuselage that defines the cabin envelope for the in-flight passenger experience and cabin design therefore receives significant attention for new aircraft, service updates and refurbishments.
Re "From America's Busiest Death Chamber, a Catalog of Last Rants, Pleas and Apologies" (news article, June 30): At first glance, it's odd that states like Texas have retained the custom of offering condemned men and women the opportunity to make final statements before their executions.
A distinction was drawn between the secular and ecclesiastical powers of the prelates, under which Henry gave up his right to invest his clergy, but retained the custom of requiring them to come and do homage for the temporalities, the landed properties they held in England.
The Dvaravati Mon retained their customs and a relative degree of racial homogeneity under their own rulers.
According to the story, the temple and the community were destroyed several times over the centuries by floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but the Jewish community retained its customs and beliefs.
An important consequence is that multiple applications can easily share the infrastructure, retaining a custom view of it.
In ancient Mesopotamia, for example, Sumerians and Babylonians celebrated the renewal of the life-sustaining spring rains in the month of Nisan although some cities of Mesopotamia retained an ancient custom of celebrating a second similar festival when the rains returned in the month of Tishri (autumn).
(Much of early 19th century Cornwall retained the old custom of 'keeping company', by which a couple would not be formally married until the woman became pregnant, and the woman would continue to work and to live with her family until that time).
All proteome sequence files were processed so that only the longest protein sequence product of a given gene was retained using a custom Perl script.
A founder of the Norwegian-American Historical Association in 1925, he tirelessly urged immigrants to retain their customs, their speech, and their church, believing that American society would be the richer.
