Word: support
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...Navy told McGrath she couldn't enroll in the Surface Warfare Officers School. All 17 slots set aside for women had been filled. That school would have prepared her to sail on a support vessel--one of the tenders, oilers and suppliers that women were then confined to. But she was already setting her sights higher. After sailing out of Yokosuka on a visiting frigate, McGrath was more determined than ever to serve on a warship. "It was a lot more fun, like driving a sports car," she says. "They go fast, handle better, and they're sexy and glamorous...
Ultimately the Navy relented and found her an open slot in the surface school. After graduating, McGrath flourished aboard the Navy's fleet of support vessels. She served on four different ships from 1983 to 1994, including an 18-month stint as a commander of a salvage ship. Onshore she earned a master's degree in education from Stanford. Still, by the early 1990s she was beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships...
Bush's moves to the middle have seemed wobbly. He has said he would sign a bill that mandates safety locks but would not push for one. He supports imposing background checks on weapons sold at gun shows but ducks the contentious issue of how long such checks should take. He says he likes Pataki's proposals to ban assault weapons and track new guns by their ballistic fingerprints, but he has not rushed to give the package his full support...
...best solutions may be the big-ticket improvements that have proved most elusive. The FAA continues to support a sophisticated ground-radar system that is $30 million over budget and years late. Closing poorly designed airports and restricting the number of flights per hour would probably prove effective--and expensive. It comes down, says Air Safety Week editor David Evans, to "the classic tension between economics and safety." In this trade-off, there's a lot to be said for safety. Just ask Bob and Elizabeth Dole...
BEST MAGAZINE In its own annual feature, Advertising Age magazine profiled TIME as one of the five best magazines of the year. "The publication has witnessed a growth spurt," the magazine said, noting both TIME's increased support in the advertising community and the success of TIME DIGITAL, TIME FOR KIDS and TIME LARGE EDITION...