Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, all these are among the half a dozen or so eating concepts being tested in pilot restaurants around the country in the hope that they will grow up to be the new-age McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages...
...such relentlessly uncheery subject matter. Tour of Duty is the more conventional of the two, an L.A. Law-style mix of characters, subplots and issues that are introduced and neatly resolved by episode's end. The show's flaws are familiar: characters who are too simplistic (the hotdogging helicopter pilot, the streetwise black private), and plot twists that are too patly "illuminating." When a battle- fatigued soldier is sent back into combat before he is ready -- over the objections of his sergeant and a psychiatrist -- you can bet that five minutes into his first mission he will go berserk...
Initial reports fowarded to Air Force commanders at the Pentagon suggested the pilot of the plane experienced some kind of problem during his take-off roll, according to officials who spoke on condition they not be identified...
...which suffered a bloody, one-sided defeat and a brutal occupation by imperial Japan, will send President Corazon Aquino. Indonesia will send President Suharto. Most of Japan's modern-day trading partners seem to share the magnanimity -- and pragmatism -- of incoming U.S. President George Bush. While a Navy bomber pilot, he was shot down over the Pacific by Japanese gunners, but he professes to hold no grudge. Bush was among the first Western leaders to announce he will attend Hirohito's funeral. To those who objected, Bush explained, "What I'm symbolizing is not the past, but the present...
While not ruling out pilot error, investigators are focusing on the possibility that the plane's electronic fire-alarm system failed and indicated trouble in the wrong engine, leading to a tragic mistake. As other Boeing 737s are being checked, the remains of Flight 92's engines have been sent back to their French co-maker, SNECMA, for examination...