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...problem because it seems not to be a one-year blip," Bol said. "There's evidence based on juniors that this is going to continue...
...wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents say, the friendly fire theory would require a conspiracy in which hundreds of sailors, flyers, Navy...
...Then in the late 1980s a severe nursing shortage gave the profession the leverage to win compensation commensurate with skill. Today the average staff nurse's salary is about $35,000; at New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, a nurse with 20 years' experience earns $71,250--a big blip on any cost-containment radar screen...
...still worried about the expected 17 percent increase in the teenage population over the next ten years. Since the majority of violent crimes are committed by young men, the rise is a potential demographic time bomb. "It is too early to tell if the decline is merely a blip, or an actual trend," says TIME's Elaine Rivera. "But it is consistent with a general decline in crime in cities across the country. The real question is whether federal, state, and city governments will continue long term youth programs shown to be helpful in addressing the problems young people have...
...reasons that lie behind Boorda's suicide will probably never be understood. Could it be that this former enlisted man still felt insecure in his accomplishments, next to the Annapolis graduates who surrounded him? "This would have been a blip on the screen for me," said Duane Bushey, who worked with Boorda from 1988 to '92 as the Navy's master chief petty officer. "I think it would be humiliating for him. But even if it came out that he really didn't deserve them, I think the average sailor would say, 'Yeah, but look at what...