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...year, has a record $54 billion backlog of orders for 1,049 planes. But that enviable business has led to late deliveries and unaccustomed lapses in quality control. Over the past four years, the FAA has levied 14 fines totaling $245,000 against Boeing for putting faulty parts in exit doors and for other quality-control errors. The fines included a $145,000 penalty that Boeing paid last March for installing thousands of defective self-locking nuts on the flight controls of 22 of its 767 jets...
...also wrestling with difficulties posed by the Soviet Union's decision to nearly triple the number of exit visas it will grant its citizens this year. Washington has long prodded Moscow for just such an opening to emigres. To accommodate the new Soviet arrivals, the Reagan Administration last year transferred 7,000 slots previously reserved for Asian immigrants to Soviet refugees, outraging advocates for Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants...
...Exit polls have made political upsets a relic of the past. We'll never see another smiling face like Truman's holding up the proof--Dewey wins--of the unthinkable upset...
...Afghan government likes to control the news by supplying foreign correspondents with official "guides." Though Desmond's assigned minders complained that it was unauthorized, he managed to drive a few miles out along the snowy Salang Highway to a new Afghan army base currently guarding the Red Army's exit route...
...like to think of Frank as a Jerboa, he's always quick to the ball and gets in and out of the corners real fast," Polsky says. "In one match I saw him dive for the ball 13 times, only to exit the court with bloody knees. He's always functioned marvelously as a role model...