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Sturdier Seats Congress's Airport and Airway Safety Act of 1987 called for regulators to improve what is called the "crash-worthiness standard" of seats - in effect, the likelihood that they will crumple and crush passengers at impact. It took 17 years to accomplish the task, as the Federal Aviation Administration tussled with aircraft manufacturers and airlines that balked at paying for the upgraded seats. The FAA produced evidence that sturdier seats could have prevented 45 fatalities between 1984 and 1998. A deal was reached. In 2005, the FAA mandated that all U.S. aircraft built after October 2009 meet...
...accomplish all that, Kotz and his team are listening carefully to whistleblowers like Harry Markopolos, the private securities fraud investigator who dogged Madoff for years and whistled loudly, and to others, both inside and outside the agency. "Harry has been helpful for two reasons; he has specifics on how Madoff operated and how he claims the SEC failed in listening to him. We are also listening to his recommendations for change within the agency...
...Obama’s announcement that he will drastically cut the budget deficit over the course of his presidency seems highly difficult to accept. Fortunately, the administration has made it clear that it has proposals on how to reduce the deficit, and we are hopeful that it can actually accomplish these promised cuts. Reducing the federal budget deficit is essential to maintaining a healthy economy in the long term...
...Canadian experience with EFF reinforces the U.S. experience with TARP: government loses control of stimulus money once it falls into the hands of recipients. Obama needs to be realistic about what the "bad bank" can accomplish - namely relieving banks of some junk assets at considerable cost to the taxpayer. It won't jump-start consumer lending - at least not in the foreseeable future if the lesson of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's experience is anything...
...heist film of sorts, the movie follows Philippe Petit’s 1974 quest to cross the World Trade Center towers on a tightrope. In his introduction of the documentary, Boston Phoenix film editor Peter Keough praised the movie’s subtle restraint. “Some movies accomplish more by leaving things out than by putting them in,” he said. Anyone who has seen the film will know immediately what Keough refers to, for while there is plenty of footage concerning the building of the Twin Towers, there is nary a mention of their destruction...