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...four years ago by becoming the first American woman in space. Now Astronaut Sally Ride, 36, is set to explore the academic frontier. Her new mission: science fellow at the Center for International - Security and Arms Control, a think tank at Stanford University. Ride's switch to the private sector, effective Aug. 15, comes in the wake of her divorce from Astronaut Steven Hawley and reports that the ambitious spacewoman had become restless at NASA. "It was going to be a long time until she flew again," confides a colleague, "and she wasn't particularly turned on even by that...
...then be alleviated or prevented by shifting the altitude of some flights or rerouting others so that they bypass congested areas. By this fall, when more complex computer programs should be in place, controllers hope to be able to predict at least two hours in advance when an airspace sector is about to become saturated, and thus prevent delays. Says Jack Ryan, director of the FAA's Air Traffic Operations Service: "We will be ready to head off problems before they occur...
...several leading banks boosted their benchmark prime lending rates to corporate customers from 8% to 8.25%, the second time in two weeks that the key rate has risen. The housing industry is particularly vulnerable to high interest rates because home sales depend on available and affordable mortgages. But no sector of the economy will remain unscathed if rates keep rising...
...fallen Reagan Administration officials fit into some broad categories. There are the Foxes in the Chicken Coop: those appointed to enforce regulations they chafed under while in the private sector and who, once in office, seemed eager to undermine them. There are the Public-Service Privateers: appointees from the business world who carried their Wall Street ethos into the public sector. The True Believers: officials whose loyalty and ambition overcame their judgment and principles. And People with a Past: officials undone by acts committed before entering government...
Some Administration officials, following the Reagan ethos of privatizing the public sector, treated their Government jobs as private fiefs. At least Emanuel Savas, an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, preached what he practiced: he used his agency staff to type and proofread a commercial book of his titled, aptly enough, Privatizing the Public Sector. Some officials, having made financial sacrifices to go into Government, evidently felt entitled to recoup as much as possible. C. McClain Haddow, former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, was indicted last month for fraudulently obtaining...