Word: controll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that have always plagued air travel; pilot error, leaks, blown tires and engine shutdowns are frequent occurrences. But the Flight 232 disaster was of a different order altogether: a loss of all three of the plane's redundant hydraulic systems at the same moment, rendering it almost impossible to control. FAA investigators are combing a 16-sq.-mi. area of Iowa cornfields for pieces of a fan disk of the plane's No. 2 engine, which was mounted high on the DC-10's tail. They hope that examining the fan disk will help them determine what caused an explosion...
Insurers show up just as quickly as the lawyers, seeking through a disputed process known as claim control to keep costs from spiraling. Associated Aviation Underwriters, one of the major airline-liability insurance companies, has already begun the process of talking with survivors and the families of victims of the Sioux City crash, trying to settle their claims quickly and dissuade them from going to court. Says Peter Magee, executive vice president of the company: "If you buy a ticket to get from Point A to Point B, and you don't make it there, then the legal burden...
...shouldn't consult a lawyer -- are anathema to the aviation bar. According to Gerald Sterns, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in air- crash litigation, "These letters can be very dangerous for the victims if they decide later to file a lawsuit. The insurance company's concern is damage control. What they're doing is developing a rapport with the victims and duping them...
...estimated at $8 billion. In a dramatic bow to the intense nationalism of the Baltic republics, which were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, the Supreme Soviet, led by Gorbachev, approved a resolution endorsing plans to allow Lithuania and Estonia to manage their own economies freely, outside the control of central planners in Moscow. Baltic economists say they intend to develop Western-style market economies similar to those in Scandinavia, based on light industry and agriculture and free to sell or barter with other Soviet republics or foreign countries...
...leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...