Word: autopilot
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Somewhere over the Altai Mountains, experts at Montreal's International Air Transport Association now believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski's 15-year-old son -- who, with his sister, was apparently receiving a lesson from Dad on how to fly the plane -- inexplicably may have disengaged the plane's autopilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control...
...called VOR (visual omni-range) network -- hundreds of cone-shaped navigation beacons scattered across the U.S. Automatic flight-control systems depend on clear VOR signals to land planes safely when visibility is poor. But some of that VOR equipment has been behaving strangely of late, occasionally causing aircraft on autopilot to veer sickeningly out of control...
Bush's basic error was to leave his prewar Iraq policy on autopilot. The Administration had a big investment in its belief that Saddam -- whom Bush called "worse than Hitler" after the invasion -- could be cajoled into better behavior. So the U.S. pulled its diplomatic punches in a way that not only seems like appeasement in retrospect but also struck some as such at the time. If the U.S. had few tools to influence Saddam's prewar behavior, as Bush aides now acknowledge, then perhaps little would have been lost had they just written Iraq off, but Bush...
Davis seems to be on autopilot. Her scenes and lines are funny, but she's just not there...
...taxes as well as higher vehicle- registration and education fees. He also proposed $5 billion in spending cuts, including a 5% salary reduction and monthly one- to two-day furloughs for the state's 276,000 employees. His most controversial proposal for getting the state off what he calls "autopilot spending": a $500 million reduction + in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program that will not only suspend cost-of-living increases but actually cut the $694 monthly welfare payment to a poor mother with two children...