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...Wider and plusher than standard airline seats, TWA's lounger has a little padded footrest and reclines up to 40 degrees. Says its developer, TWA Industrial Designer Daniel Sauter: "It's a kind of mixture between a barber seat and a La-Z-Boy chair." The design redistributes weight to the legs and back, putting less of it on the buttocks. TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet." With other parts of their anatomy...
...participants are "people who in the past have been focusing on a narrow technical specialty and who are now starting to move into realms which demand a wider spectrum of skills and abilities," said Mark E. Cancian '73, assistant director of national security programs at the Kennedy School...
While the immediate danger of a wider panic now seems averted, the questions have just begun to be asked about what caused the Ohio panic and what should be done to halt future outbreaks at an earlier stage. The episode is the latest in a string of U.S. banking calamities that include a surge in shaky farm loans, management scandals and the $4.5 billion federal bailout last July of Continental Illinois...
...status and privilege with the U.S. It also wants what Soviet spokesmen call "compensation" for various perceived or alleged geopolitical disadvantages and grievances. In practice, the twin claims of equality and compensation mean that the Soviet Union is constantly looking for ways to enhance its security and its wider interests at the expense of others, especially of the U.S. and its allies...
...analytical confusion among those Black students with ethnocentric identities is further revealed in the naive arguements by the quintet (and also by Christopher Farley and James Kearney--March 4) that the wider Harvard community is obligated to fund and sustain a Third World Center. Though the quintet and Alan Shaw disagree with me--owing perhaps to their low leadership expectations of Black students--I still consider it a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students with ethnocentric identities to ask others (whites) to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences...