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The airport, built in 1930 and run by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, is favored by many local travelers as a simpler, faster alternative to Los Angeles International Airport.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026
For almost 60 years, successive governments have tried to reform it, with one alternative repeatedly put forward: commonhold.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026
Gulf oil producers are increasingly using alternative routes, bypass pipelines and overseas storage to get around the strategic chokepoint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
This may prove to be the coercive factor that finally gives Putin no alternative but to come to the negotiating table and end the war.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
Finally, with some foreboding because of her previous experience in Providence, she chose the latter alternative.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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