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...lately, probably because a populist group was responsible for many of Obama’s troubles in the wake of the Massachusetts senate race that catapulted Republican Scott Brown to Washington. The Tea Party movement, organized last spring around a shared disapproval of reckless spending in Washington, DC, was crucial for mobilizing support for Brown during the race. Over the past several months, the movement has grown so popular that, according to a recent New Yorker article, it would attract more support than the Republican Party if it were to become a registered political affiliation...
Continental and two former employees are on trial for involuntary manslaughter, for having allowed a piece of titanium known as a wear strip to drop off one of the airline's DC-10 planes as it taxied down the runway two aircraft ahead of the fateful Air France Concorde, on a hot July afternoon in 2000. Five minutes later, the Concorde, according to the charges, rolled over the debris, which pierced one of its tires, sending pieces of rubber flying. One piece of rubber apparently penetrated the Concorde's full fuel tank, which exploded in fire. As traffic controllers screamed...
...cancelled that day; and Concorde workers had allegedly neglected to replace a crucial tire spacer on the aircraft in maintenance work four days before the crash. Continental is the only company charged, along with the firm's former welder John Taylor, who fixed the titanium strip to the Continental DC-10, and his supervisor Stanley Ford. The French are also going after their own. In the same trial, Concorde's former head of testing Henri Perrier and former chief engineer Jacques Herubel as well as France's retired civil aviation chief Claude Frantzen are also charged with involuntary manslaughter...
Given our love for a good schmooze sesh, FlyBy arrived at the DC version of HAA's Global Networking Night pretty psyched. About 45 or so attendants ranging from '78 to '12 (never too early to be an alumnus, eh?) packed into an awkwardly open space that mingled with tables of regular patrons in order to make that connection that would lead to that new, hip, and recession-proof job we all pine for. We think. There was no open bar to help grease the proceedings...
FlyBy was immediately labeled upon entering—yellow, for Finance—and would pay a hefty price for it. DC politicos, environmental engineers, TFA groupies, and a tax lawyer wanted no part of the economic-turn-finance kid. One even tossed out the dreaded Goldman Sachs label while they all teamed to close off the circle...