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...addition, Butterfield last week took steps to require the airlines to adopt in 1975 a device that sounds an audible warning when the leading-edge flaps on a Boeing 747 do not deploy fully-the apparent cause of a Lufthansa accident in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 21 that killed 59 people. Again, Butterfield is open to criticism for not having acted sooner. There had been enough cases of flaps not extending on 747s well before Nairobi to cause British Airways to install such a warning device in 1972, even though none of the failures had at that point caused...
...loaf "helps build strong bodies twelve ways." Now the agency accuses ITT management of nagging Continental to build itself up too rapidly; James Halverson, director of the FTC'S Bureau of Competition, says that "ITT set profit and market goals for ITT Continental that forced the subsidiary to adopt predatory practices." According to the FTC complaint, Continental practiced a classic monopolistic scheme: it would use high profits from areas where competition was weak to subsidize below-cost sales of Wonder bread in cities where it faced a strong competitive challenge; then, when rivals were driven out of business...
...speech to the General Assembly that scalded many delegates, Scali voiced Washington's concern over "the growing tendency of this organization to adopt one-sided, unrealistic resolutions that cannot be implemented...
...Seven Sister Schools," including Radcliffe, will go along with the Ivy presidents' decision. Raduchel said other colleges had expressed an interest in the Ivy guidelines, and he expects many schools to adopt them...
...purpose of the meeting is to adopt a charter that will spell out the ways in which the party should conduct its affairs. The worry is that conservatives and liberals will exacerbate all their traditional differences by arguing over the document in full view of the TV news cameras. "God, we don't want a confrontation right now," says one state organizer for Senator Henry Jackson, a leading prospect for the nomination...