But another poll, this one by the nonprofit Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, found that three-quarters of the people it surveyed were wrong about what they have to do to get ready by the time analog signals go off the air on Feb. 17, 2009.

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In the past, Indians wanting to go from Tripura to Kolkata had either to travel by air or make a convoluted 1, 750-km (1, 100 mile) overland journey via Guwahati, capital of Assam.

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If we could go one step further and reduce air pollution in affected communities by cutting emissions from cars, trucks and dirty industries, the impact would be even greater.

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Alcohol duties and air duty will be frozen - but tobacco tax will go up by two percentage points above inflation.

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The international scare was triggered when he flew with his wife via Prague to Montreal on 24 May, despite being contacted in Rome by US health officials, who told him to go into isolation or pay for an air ambulance home.

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The market seemed receptive: Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) was expecting a pack of budget airlines--including EasyJet , Ryanair (nasdaq: RYAAY - news - people ), Go and Buzz --to triple their share of European air travel, to 28%, by 2010.

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The pitch had been covered by a warm air blanket since Friday morning at which stage officials were confident that the game would go ahead.

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