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Rosenthal says "God only knows why they have seat belts in airplanes," and goes on to question their usefulness. Seat belts are an absolutely essential safety appliance in any airplane. During critical takeoff and landing maneuvers any one of a number of situations may occur requiring the crew to take emergency action resulting in rapid acceleration or deceleration. People not wearing seatbelts in such situations would certainly incur injuries through impact with bulkheads, seatbacks and even other passengers. Furthermore, during the enroute phase of flight, turbulence may be encountered which, besides just jarring the aircraft, can place...
Team W L Overall Princeton 4 0 27-0 Yale 4 0 19-11 Harvard 2 2 8-4 Brown 2 4 12-12 Penn 0 6 2-14 Men's Lightweight Crew...
Team W L Princeton 3 1 Columbia 2 2 Yale 1 (unclear) Dartmouth 2 3 Harvard 0 1 Brown 0 20 Cornell 0 2 Women's Crew...
...seatbelt. For the benefit of the very stupid, the attendants point out that it is wise to extinguish cigarettes before putting on an oxygen mask. For anyone anxious to struggle out of a seat and stand in the aisles for a half-hour while the landing crew tries to open the doors, the attendants suggest waiting until the plane has landed before retrieving luggage from the overhead bins...
...banks, mutual funds and other institutions that manage IRAs, the challenge last week was to tell customers the difference between the new and old rules -- and to promote new clients. Fidelity Investments, an $80 billion Boston-based mutual-fund group, gave its round-the-clock crew of telephone operators special training in how to explain the new tax code to would-be investors. Citibank (1986 revenues: $144.8 billion) programmed computer terminals in 200 branches to answer questions about IRAs and responded to thousands of queries...