EasyJet said the problems were caused by not having the right numbers of staff in the right place at the right time and pledged it would not make the same mistakes next summer.
Obama gave a speech about it in Osawatomie, Kansas, in the wake of Occupy, and last year he pushed it toward the center of his second Inaugural Address, and last month, speaking in a poor Washington neighborhood, he gave it his fullest consideration to date, calling inequality "the defining challenge of our time" and pledging to devote his second term to confronting it.
WASHINGTON — When Christopher J. Dodd announced in January that he would not seek a sixth term in the Senate, he called reform of financial regulation, along with health care, "the two most important issues of our time," and pledged to spend his last year in Congress "fully focused" on his legislative duties.
Obama pushed gun control to the top of his domestic agenda for the first time and pledged to put the full weight of his presidency behind the issue.
On the one hand, he warns us that sharply rising income inequality "is the defining challenge of our time" and pledges to reverse "a dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility...."....
The governor, who will appoint three members of the state panel, including its chairman, and the mayor, who will appoint two members, announced their agreement just after 5 p.m. on Friday at a news conference at which they hugged several times and pledged a new partnership.
In an address to the United Nation's General Assembly this past September, Rousseff called climate change "one of the greatest challenges of our times" and pledged that Brazil would take a leadership role in future climate negotiations.
They have offered legislation imposing new, more severe sanctions on Iran at a most inopportune time, and a pledge of American diplomatic and military support if the Israelis attack Iran.
In a voluntary system, if our present use is 20 gallons per some unit of time, and we pledge to cut two, how can we make do with 18?
Their pledges were far from bold, and left both sides open to criticism: China's emissions, after all, will continue to grow over time, and cuts pledged by the U.S. still fall far short of what scientists say is required to avert the worst effects of warming.
