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When Iowa farmer Janice Sorenson turned up a huge, windmill-shaped hunk of titanium while harvesting corn last week, she knew exactly what she had found. General Electric had distributed photos of the disk in its search for the cause of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 last...
The disk was the most sought-after part because it served as the hub for the engine's turbine blades. Metallurgists who inspected the disk last week found a crack that appeared to have been present before the explosion and may have triggered it. From its total reward fund of...
Citizen initiatives can be an example of democracy at work. But in this case they are symptomatic of governmental decay at all levels. Once a great engine of social and economic improvement, the Federal Government began to lose its bearings in the '60s and '70s in the midst of wars...
Car companies could meet such standards by upgrading their current pollution controls rather than developing expensive new systems. For example, the bill would require that catalytic converters, now guaranteed to be effective for 50,000 miles, be beefed up to last 100,000 miles. Other alterations would range from adding...
Although Detroit railed against the proposed standards, the fact is that some cars already meet or exceed part of the requirements. Reason: automakers have complied since 1983 with California's pollution laws, which are the strictest in the U.S. and will become even tighter in the 1990s, when they are...