Word: crews
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Blood and urine samples from the Conrail crew indicated marijuana use by Engineer Richard Gates and Brakeman Edward Cromwell. Though the FRA has not said whether the amounts found are sufficient to prove Gates and Cromwell were intoxicated at the time, railroad workers are forbidden to work under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board now recommends that all trains operating between Washington and Boston be equipped with automatic braking devices that would stop a train even if engineers did not heed track signals...
...starts with a great idea, delegates authority well, scraps like a street fighter, then takes the best of what comes out of the fracas." Says Dale Dye, the Marine captain who hazed Platoon's actors to firm them up for filming: "Oliver thrives on chaos, throwing together a crew of such diverse backgrounds and ideologies that there's constant friction. It's the kind of energy he thrives on." Platoon's star, Charlie Sheen, 21, found the director "brutally honest. Which is why we clicked. After a scene he'd say, 'You sucked' or 'You nailed it.' That's just...
...Newport has long been quietly plotting his course for the Cup's recapture. After breaking with the N.Y.Y.C., Conner, who owns a drapery business in San Diego, raised some $15 million (mostly from corporate sponsors, including Ford, Merrill Lynch and Budweiser). Two years ago, he assembled his crew and began sailing in near secrecy off Hawaii, where wind and water duplicate the Western Australia conditions. Conner had also noted that the Fremantle Doctor, a wind so named because it relieves the almost 100 degrees temperatures onshore, increases in strength as the antipodal summer progresses. So he got his marine architects...
...home and a dockside war dance by Maori tribesmen, New Zealand got lucky in the third race. Stars & Stripes got off to a lead of 21 seconds, but a halyard shackle popped loose as the boat rounded the second mark, sending its spinnaker flapping into the water. Although his crew cleared the wet sail and hoisted a new sheet in 70 seconds, Conner fell behind and was forced into an exhausting two-hour tacking match in which he came about 131 times to Dickson's 128. Stars & Stripes narrowed the gap to 15 seconds at one point, but New Zealand...
Enter the Gipper himself, half convalescent and half President, treading gingerly but gaining strength. There are a few more wrinkles around his eyes, and his weight is down a couple of pounds from the hospital stay. Color a bit bleached. But every vital sign normal, and the crew of doctors unanimous in their belief that he is hale physically. Being President actually prolongs a man's life, statistics suggest. "The doctors said he had the insides of a 50- year-old, and I intend to keep him that way," says Nancy Reagan...