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...Airbus A320 had been delivered to Air France only two days earlier, and the airline was proud to welcome 130 passengers aboard its new plane last week for a scenic demonstration flight. During the 45-minute ride, the sophisticated craft was supposed to buzz the tarmac at a French air show and swoop past 15,771-ft. Mont Blanc. The twin-jet aircraft, renowned as the world's most electronically advanced commercial airliner and celebrated as a symbol of Europe's technological prowess, was packed with local dignitaries, sightseers and journalists. Also aboard: a handful of aviation buffs who paid...
Multimillion-dollar cases like Conlan's are suddenly proliferating, giving the banking industry a dreaded new buzz phrase: lender liability. Gone are the days, says Victor Roy, a Louisiana banking lawyer, when "suing a bank was ! like suing the Pope." While the increase in lawsuits can be attributed in part to growing litigiousness, some bankers have themselves to blame. In the early 1980s, lenders aggressively sought new borrowers in farming and oil, pushing generous loans under the presumption that the good times would keep on rolling. But when the bottom fell out of petroleum and commodity prices, many ventures were...
...Democratic muddle has been sorted out, if "brokered convention" and "Mario scenario" have become yesterday's buzz words, new questions arise: Can Dukakis pull together the quarrelsome factions of his party? Can he and Jackson live together constructively? Can he lure back the millions of disaffected Democrats who supported Ronald Reagan in 1984? Although for the moment at least Dukakis leads Bush in national surveys, his advantage is tenuous -- and so is the Democratic coalition...
...seat gallery was nearly full, and there was a buzz after each vote on the charges yesterday...
...slums of Manila lies a settlement called Happy Land. The name notwithstanding, Happy Land is neither happy nor on land. A collection of lean-tos patched together from plastic, cardboard, plywood and scrap metal, Happy Land is built on stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled clay stoves. Everywhere children frolic, playing tag and splashing...