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DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...
...things got to that pass, companies' premium bills were rising rapidly, and no one could quite explain why. "We were writing checks into a system where we didn't know what we were getting for services in return," says Fred Hamacher, vice president of compensation and benefits for the Dayton Hudson department-store chain--though he did suspect that "there was a lot of administrative gobbledygook that added no value to the system, just cost." Like Harry and Louise of the TV commercials, Minneapolis executives thought there must be a better...
...when a mediation panel led by American Roberts Owen decided to leave the northern Bosnian town of Brcko in Serb control for another year. The dilapidated town, which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered...
...recognize a single artist or group in your selection of the best music. Perhaps it's time to change the setting on my car radio." BARBARA PRICE Dayton, Ohio...
...arrived accompanied by Carla Schrom, a Dayton's investigator posing as a crooked store employee, and presented Jim and Stacy, who were visiting, with a Coach briefcase, a Baccarat crystal eagle and three suits. They allegedly bought the crystal and leather but declined the suits, demanding Armanis instead. This provoked a flurry of activity, since the nearby Dayton's didn't carry the favored designer in 42-long. Officers had to fetch some from the chain's Minneapolis branch. But the delay may have paid off, since by the time the new loot arrived, the elder Dicks were home. After...