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...rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted the Federal Aviation Administration to be more aggressive in studying, monitoring and regulating the way following aircraft navigate wake vortex. Now, even if such turbulence...
...nautical miles, well within the FAA regulation that requires two planes of such weights to maintain a separation of 3 nautical miles. If the 727 wake did jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB from 1983 through 1993, all of those incidents -- some merely unsettling, some disastrous -- involved much lighter trailing aircraft...
...there a deft little lesson here in how to distinguish raw genius from cautiously tutored craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...
Yamin said the club and the union were able to resolve the strike more quickly because both agreed to use a private mediating service to help craft a resolution...
Retiring majority leader George Mitchell reluctantly abandoned his Herculean efforts to craft a compromise health-care reform bill and pulled the plug on any such legislation for this year. "The insurance industry on the outside and a majority of Republicans on the inside proved to be too much to overcome," said Mitchell. Senate minority leader Bob Dole countered that "democracy in action" defeated what he claimed was a bad, costly and overly bureaucratic set of proposals. President Clinton vowed to revive the fight next year...