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FASTEST-GROWING REPAIR BILL The official estimated price tag to bail out the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees the deposits of the troubled thrift industry, jumped from $20 billion at the start of 1988 to as much as $50 billion by year...
...first, investigators believed the disaster might have been caused by massive structural failure. Though Boeing 747s are among the sturdiest passenger planes in the world, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed on a domestic flight in 1985 after a rear bulkhead ruptured as the result of a faulty repair job, killing 520 of the 524 aboard. But one important difference between the Japan Air Lines crash and the Pan Am tragedy was that the pilot of the Japanese plane was able to talk to ground control for half an hour as he tried unsuccessfully to land his mortally wounded craft...
...actor, a 1978 Oscar nominee (The Buddy Holly Story), had just got his Harley-Davidson out of a repair shop in Culver City, Calif., and was heading down busy Washington Boulevard, when he failed to negotiate a right turn. He skidded and was thrown from his bike, his head slamming against a sidewalk. After nearly two hours of brain surgery, he was given a guardedly optimistic prognosis...
Enrique Balroya, associate dean of the University of Miami's School of International Studies, said that if Cuban leader Fidel Castro had cared about the country's welfare, he would have already attempted to repair relations with...
...sides agreed that California's car premiums have careered out of control. Insurers, who blamed runaway medical expenses and repair bills, also accused the state's trial lawyers of persuading clients to bring unnecessary suits. Consumer activists replied that insurers were still making healthy profits in the state and noted that companies were able to spend $70 million to fight Proposition 103 and promote alternatives on the ballot. (The measure's sponsors, led by Rosenfield and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, spent $2.3 million to get it passed...