Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American buildings. Communities and companies around the country have been spending millions of dollars in a race to remove the lethal stuff. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 733,000 public and commercial buildings and up to 45,000 of the nation's 100,000 schools contain asbestos in a potentially dangerous condition. While the cost of removing it could reach hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few decades, failure to do so would expose millions of children and other citizens to the prospect of an early, painful death...
...public's fears have been fueled in part by EPA regulations that require school officials to inspect buildings for flaking asbestos every six months, notify parents if it is found and make every effort to contain or remove the material. "The law implies that they must do something about it, and that is not always right," says Mossman...
...modules to go crazy at once. Software, always the skittish part of any system, can also be made more dependable by imposing the kind of discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers. A program like AT&T's faulty switching system, however, which can contain a million lines of code, is more complex than any bridge. "Standards have not been developed," says Donn Parker, a senior management consultant at SRI International. "Software is not predictable...
Descriptions of trout fishing, house repair, medical treatment and mistreatment lead to deeper connections. The stream that rushes behind Schreiber's house and the life that dwindles from her mother's body contain mysteries that must be skillfully lured to the surface. Among the enigmas is the nature of mother-daughter relationships. The moving paradox here is that Schreiber is never more of a daughter than when she must mother her dying parent...
...Force began in 1983 to urge its replacement; not being politicians, the generals naturally were inclined to make the President's plane the safest, roomiest and best. This 747 will combine more self-sufficiency, range (7,140 miles), comfort and convenience than any other airplane ever built. It will contain all the latest communications gear, antimissile devices, nuclear-proofing and self-sustaining maintenance machinery that the Secret Service and White House staff wanted. Everybody from the stewards to the pilots was consulted, even the reporters who cover the President. They asked for the moon and got it. Boeing and Congress...