Word: crashing
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...invited employees to E-mail him and answered every message personally. He visited SBA personnel in the hospital. He figured out how to take a 20% budget cut and still increase the number of loans, shedding headquarters jobs to put more people in district offices. It was a crash course for someone who had never worked outside the private sector. "I managed in the public environment, but off-Broadway," he says. "Not every mistake came under the microscope...
Kalb suggests that while faculty may understand the theoretical aspects of the media, their work in Washington is a crash course in the practical power of television, radio and the press...
...turn them off or back on. Safety advocates have pressured the industry to make changes to air bags, which have been blamed for at least 45 deaths of small women and children. They are advocating air bags that would deploy with varying amounts of force depending on the crash. The auto industry, meanwhile, has proposed reducing the deployment force of all air bags by 20-30 percent, saying it is the quickest way to address air bag deaths and injuries. But not all injuries can be attributed to air bags: "The majority of injuries to children and deaths of children...
DIED. JUNIUS JAYEWARDENE, 90, former President of Sri Lanka, whose reforms helped launch its economy but whose inability to stop a civil war has brought the country to a crash and cost it 50,000 lives so far; in Colombo...
ELAINE SHANNON, who has been covering the FBI and the Department of Justice for TIME since 1987, was furiously reporting the TWA Flight 800 crash story last July when a pipe bomb blew up in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in the middle of the Summer Games. As suspicion fell on Richard Jewell, the security guard who had at first been considered a hero for spotting the bomb, Shannon enjoyed an insider's view of a criminal investigation that ended up going wrong in a painfully public way. "The FBI is a remarkable institution that often gets...