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...tension reached as far as the hills of Tennessee and farms of Wisconsin, where local Air National Guardsmen were hurriedly called from their civilian jobs to help ferry U.S. troops and gear the 5000 miles to Saudi Arabia...
...three major airports: John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York City and Hartsfield International in Atlanta. Many charges involve an illegal practice known as pencil whipping, or signing off on work that has not been performed. Mechanics allegedly failed to perform maintenance on cockpit gauges, landing gear, radar and fuel systems. While no accidents resulted from the neglected work, "thousands of innocent passengers may have been put at risk every day," Attorney General Dick Thornburgh declared...
Welcome to the era of hedged bets and lowered expectations. Young people increasingly claim they are willing to leave careers in middle gear, without making that final climb to the top. The leitmotiv of the new age: second place seems just fine. But young adults are flighty if they find their workplace harsh or inflexible. "The difference between now and then was that we had a higher threshold for unhappiness," says editor Salzman. "I always expected that a job would be 80% misery and 20% glory, but this generation refuses to pay its dues...
Becky, whose room in Indianapolis is still filled with stuffed animals and riding gear, felt she could do neither. She had gone to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test, the Bells learned as they tried to retrace the steps she took during those final days, and there she was told of the Indiana law. No one knows what happened between that moment and her death two months later. When the Bells went through Becky's purse after she died, they found telephone numbers of abortion clinics in Kentucky, which did not require parental consent. "Becky just happened to live...
...Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though, is far shorter than the list of the dogs...