Word: overlying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The filing came as the nation's fifth largest carrier was beginning to win back customers with a better on-time performance and other improvements. Most passengers stuck with the airline. The real crunch may come next month when the peak season ends. "Once holiday price slashing is over, fares...
More than 400 women have stayed, usually for about 13 months, since THI opened its doors in 1986. Roughly 65% of the cases involved alcohol and drug use, while 85% of the residents had been physically or sexually abused. This halfway house was their first experience of safety -- and for...
A typical adult needs about eight hours of shut-eye a night to function effectively. By that standard, millions of Americans are chronically sleep deprived, trying to get by on six hours or even less. In many households, cheating on sleep has become an unconscious and pernicious habit. "In its...
The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that up to 200,000 traffic accidents each year may be sleep related and that 20% of all drivers have dozed off at least once while behind the wheel. Truckers are particularly vulnerable. A long-haul driver covering up to 4,000 miles in...
No one knows how large a role fatigue has played in train and air disasters over the years, but the danger is undisputed. A drowsy engineer and crew were deemed the probable cause of the 1988 head-on collision of two Conrail freight trains near Thompsontown, Pa., a crash that...