Word: employable
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Western failed to pass either of those tough tests. Nearly all the major airlines have successfully employed flight engineers over 60, among them Western, which was forced to do so during Criswell's suit. And many airlines have demonstrated their ability to recertify pilots on an individual basis by continuing to employ hundreds of victims of alcoholism, heart attack and stroke. One of Western's lawyers, William John Kennedy, had argued that the age-60 rule was based on safety considerations. Predicting passengers will be at greater risk, he said bitterly, "We've been kicked in the teeth...
...condemned to pick the targets and specify the force that will be used to take out those targets." When those kinds of questions are raised, the response is often an embarrassed silence. A potentially effective form of retribution would be to send covert-action hit teams or employ local agents to strike at terrorist squads. But American inability to keep secrets, and moral qualms about adopting the terrorists' own tactics, make that difficult if not impossible. The only certainty seems to be that for the foreseeable future, countering terrorism will rank second only to preventing nuclear war among the problems...
...York City lawyer Samuel C. Butler '51, who will sit on the board until 1988, is a director of Kentucky-based Ashland Oil Company, manufacturer of oil, coal and chemical Spokesman Dan Lacy says the company employ about 100 people--of 32,000 company-wide--in two South African sites an oil warehouse and chemical plant. About three-quarters of those employees are Black, and the operations produce revenues last year of about $10 million, out of total 1984 revenues of $7.85 billion. Ashland received the lowest possible Sullivan rating last year, according to Lacy...
...first country in the Middle East to introduce nuclear weapons to the area. Shai Feldman, an expert on strategy at Tel Aviv University, argues differently. He contends that "you can only have a credible nuclear deterrent if the other side believes you have the capability and the will to employ nuclear weapons under certain circumstances. And the only way to have a credible doctrine is to have the public behind you." Accordingly, Feldman feels, Israel should "develop the means and then openly proclaim its willingness to use nuclear weapons...
...clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles. The only way to discern its size and shape accurately was to employ a technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). In 1983 the astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration of the telescopes gave us a 'lens' 3,000 miles in diameter," explains...