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...decision, welcomed by both commercial and private aviation circles, capped a controversy over appropriate anticollision gear. The device that passed the old Marine's personal muster is a bureaucratic mouthful: Threat Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS, for short). But there is nothing complex about its goal: to avoid disastrous collisions like the one that caused the deaths of 144 people when a small private plane crashed into a commercial jet over San Diego in 1978. The risk of similar mishaps-25 occurred in 1979 (the latest year tabulated) with the loss of 34 lives-could become greater...
...adventures, they have increasingly begun to seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster the resources for a typical Bond outing seems, well, a little...
...Reaganite who may not pass Senate muster...
...know they're in trouble. I'm feeding them here and they can't pay their bills." More than 600 Social Security recipients and sympathizers showed up to plead for New York Congressman Charles Rangel's help at a meeting in Manhattan. They hope to muster a national rally of a million or more on the Mall in Washington this summer...
...laxwomen will need all the offensive execution they can muster this weekend when they face some tougher competition at the University of Rhode Island, the site of this year's EAIAW tournament...