Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time. A badly overburdened U.S. air-traffic system has pushed control tower errors and airborne near misses to record levels. In the first three months of 1987, midair close calls increased 13%, to about 215, while errors by overtaxed air controllers jumped 18%. The looming safety crisis prompted James Barnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, to recommend earlier this month that the FAA take "immediate action" to reduce air traffic at key airports before the anticipated summer air-travel crush...
Students started lining up last Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. for tickets to go on sale 9 a.m. the following morning, said Brown student organizer Julie Barnett. "We had about 600 people out there by 3 a.m.," she added...
...trouble started last month, when Milwaukee's premature spring temperatures gave way to a brief snowfall. Jeff Barnett, 33, and Roommate Bill Hackbarth, 30, built a life-size snow sculpture of a family at the beach: kids playing, Dad holding a beer can, Mom in a light blue bikini spray-painted on her shapely form. Enter Kathleen Zanio, 43, a former Franciscan nun, who drove by the sculpture one afternoon. "Here was this woman with large, protruding breasts and abdomen," says Zanio frostily. "It was obnoxious and repulsive...
Zanio, who works as a carpenter, took a hatchet from her car trunk and started to smash the snowwoman, but fled when Barnett rushed out of his house. "We had her arrested to let people know they can't go hacking things down," says Barnett. Last week Zanio was charged with disorderly conduct; she could face a $200 fine...
...then racked up more profits by speculating in the wildly bullish Tel Aviv stock market of that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett and another friend, Michael Jesselson, whose father Ludwig Jesselson is the founder of Philip Bros., the U.S. commodity-trading house. So far, neither American has been charged...