Word: normans
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Prodded by rising public anxiety, Congress and federal regulators have vowed to examine the impact of takeovers on aircraft upkeep. Says California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee: "No one should ever be put in the position of boarding an aircraft and having to worry if the plane is safe...
...Greg Norman...
Novelists can become captives of their own Walter Mitty fantasies (remember Norman Mailer's political career?). It may be Clancy's entree to the powerful that now encourages him to aspire to something beyond the National Space Council. For although he has no formal military or national-security credentials, what he privately covets is nothing less than Ryan's job as deputy director (intelligence) of the CIA. It may be only an armchair ambition, but at moments he seriously weighs whether he could handle the challenge. "I think I would be pretty good at it," he muses. "Maybe I could...
...growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "The slowdown is now a reality. It has arrived." Two out of three of the Blue Chip forecasters expect that the economy will fall into a recession by sometime next year...
...Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang La Marseillaise. For a few fleeting days the City of Light shone brighter than usual. For a magical moonlit moment -- but only a moment -- it seemed possible that the divisions that have sundered France between revolutionaries...