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...Tuesday evening it was clear that the hearings' emotional center was not the past but Hall's fears for the future. His primary frustration involved a long-held industry custom. Designers have always--"since the first airplane," noted Daniel Cheney, an FAA manager--understood the dangers inherent in cramming electricity into a narrow airborne hull with the flammable vapors that can result when a tank is hot and mostly empty, but they have addressed the problem primarily by isolating or eliminating the sources of possible sparks. Their assumption that further precautions involving the fuel tanks were unnecessary has historically been...
...time Hall was done, both his targets were claiming to be on his side. The FAA's Cheney announced that his agency had decided to study the safety board's recommendations. Insisting that "we are seriously embracing attacking this problem on the flammable-vapor level," he pledged to "take action" on fuel-tank maintenance programs for all U.S. aircraft. Boeing declared that it had been studying fuel-tank improvements since the crash and is considering more thorough insulation and "sweeping" out accumulated fumes during flight...
Similar small-scale revolts have erupted from San Diego to Sonoma Valley, and the state board of education is expected soon to release a new, more traditional math framework for California schools. Meanwhile, McKeown and whole-math detractors like Lynne Cheney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, darkly warn that President Clinton's voluntary national test for eighth-graders, set for 1999, is being used to promote a whole-math agenda. Says Cheney: "Every single member appointed to the math [exam's] panel is a whole-math advocate." Department of Education officials bristle at the charge, saying...
...those funds, he had an ally in Texas Senator Phil Gramm. By raising nearly as much as Dole in the year before the voting began, Gramm dashed the hopes of other wannabes. Even such G.O.P. heavyweights as "the formers"--James Baker, who had been Secretary of State, and Dick Cheney, who had been Defense Secretary--shied from the challenge because the fund-raising task appeared so daunting...
...Again Bennett told him, "You oughta look at Jack." More and more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government, a move Dole thought rightly would come back to haunt Republicans. Pennsylvania Governor...