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...With a little luck, we can crack the top 15 this year," Dinneen says. "Maybe even...
...summer of unprecedented air disasters, the Federal Aviation Administration was taking no chances. Investigators had discovered a crack in the airplane engine that caught fire on a Boeing 737 jet in Manchester, England, two weeks ago, causing an explosion and fire that killed 55 passengers. In reaction, the FAA ordered U.S. airlines to schedule inspections of all similar JT8D-15 airplane engines made by Pratt & Whitney, the nation's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines...
This week's appeals court decision to reverse the October ruling centered on the issue of timeliness. The Federal District Court, originally decided that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--a state body that has first crack at such claims--had not finished its administrative proceedings before the 300-day termination deadline had passed...
Spence does not work alone. Two Assistant Deans, Melissa D. Gerrity and Phyllis Keller are both considered crack administrators. Gerrity, associate dean for financial affairs, is in charge of the budget, and is an important consultant on tuition and salaries. Keller, associate dean for for academic planning, helped develop the now well established Core Curriculum under former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky. She also is involved in tenure searches...
...fears that a lot of kids have: of a society of the netherworld living under my bed, of monsters living in the closet waiting to suck me in and do terrible things to me. There was a crack in the wall by my bed that I stared at all the time, imagining little friendly people living in the crack. One day while I was staring at the crack, it suddenly opened about five inches, and little pieces fell out of it. That really happened. I was afraid of clouds, the wind, trees -- there was a forest outside my window...