Word: crash
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...plane crash and a dormitory fire stun two campuses
...crash was the sixth in which members of a U.S. athletic team traveling as a group were killed and the second in which an entire team was wiped out. The first was in 1961, when all 18 members of the U.S. figure-skating team perished in the crash of a chartered jet in Belgium. Federal regulations require charter pilots to pass stiff medical and flying tests and hold small charter firms to almost the same strict maintenance requirements met by big commercial carriers. The DC-3 in last week's crash was almost 30 years old but, according...
...earlier, even though sales rose 2.4%. After that news broke, President Gentry resigned. He has been succeeded by David W. Morrow, 46, who once worked with Chairman Scott at Albertson's, a food and drug chain based in Boise, Idaho. Though A. & P. is closemouthed about the profit crash and the executive shift, G.E. Manolovici of Bear, Stearns & Co., one of a mere handful of Wall Street analysts who bother to follow Grandma any more, says: "To me, as an outsider, this means they've got some terrible trouble over there...
Most significant, the Houston conference was a crash course in practical politics that will make many of the participants more effective in local causes. Says New York Delegate Patricia Bailey: "We learned the ropes of the political process, how it works, how it happens. I saw that the people who were getting things done weren't the loudest. The women who were more effective were very quietly coming round to people to get their support." Now, adds Bailey, an ardent, pro-plan feminist, "we are coming back to the grass-roots level, and we are going...
...important reason for the plan's perilous passage through Congress was the misguided way the Administration had shaped up the program in the first place. In pledging to produce a National Energy Plan within 90 days of his Inauguration, and then turning the task into a semisecret crash project by a dozen staffers under Schlesinger, Carter overlooked an old truth: in Washington, people are more likely to support an idea if they have been able to help formulate it. In fact, the Administration had attempted to short-circuit opposition to many of its proposals by writing a variety...