Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daisy Manufacturing, the leading maker of toy military guns, will now add bright orange markings to its fake firearms to reduce such risks. So far, though, police take little comfort from the plan. One fear: crooks will paint similar markings on real guns, leading officers to hesitate, and risk injury or death, before firing...
Carcasses of smoking metal, charred suitcases, melted serving carts and bodies draped with bright yellow tarpaulins dotted the deserted highway. For the investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), this nightmarish landscape was not only a grisly tableau of tragedy but also a field of evidence offering myriad clues. Their task, which began last week and may not end for months, was to solve the mystery of Northwest Airlines Flight 255. Why had the plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 bound for Phoenix from Detroit's Metropolitan Airport, plunged to earth only seconds after takeoff, killing 154 passengers...
...attention soon shifted to the wing flaps. The clue came from the plane's sophisticated flight-data recorder, the so-called black box (it is actually bright orange, for easy spotting) that monitors everything from airspeed to brake temperatures. It showed no indication that the pilot had extended the flaps. Nor did conversation between the pilots in the cockpit include a mention of the flaps during the preflight verbal checklist...
...granted, like big cars, surly bureaucrats and the "notorious checked trousers and flower-laden hats" of the elderly. Nonetheless, the message of Melancholy Baby is reassuring: America is still the immigrant's silver lining, tarnished by its blandness but ennobled by its generosity. "I see more than the bright windows of my new home," Aksyonov concludes. "I see its mildewed corners as well. I trust that if I point them out my new country won't throw me out." Not to worry. America tends to welcome its satirists, even smother them with ^ affection. In fact, the danger for Aksyonov...
...COVER: Bright Asian- American students are the marvel of U. S. classrooms...