Word: equipment
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ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...
What's more, much of the equipment needed to make this Jetsons vision real, from cruise control to automatic suspension and antilock brakes, from vehicle-detection radar to dashboard navigation systems, already resides in industry catalogs. GM, for instance, is offering limited radar-based obstacle-detection systems in school buses. GM and Ford now equip their high-end cars with devices that call for emergency help after a crash. And some 4% of all new vehicles are expected to come equipped with onboard navigation systems that can tell drivers where they are by reading an onboard electronic...
...computers are as much a part of the classroom as blackboards" may win Clinton a few votes, but the fact remains that the vast majority of teachers still uses textbooks as the primary tool for learning. Computers and the vaunted Internet are merely supplements. Spending millions on computers to equip every classroom is not cost-effective. It is more important that students learn how to think than to surf the World Wide...
There is a real contest of ideas in this campaign. Bob Dole offers a government that gets out of the way and lets people solve their own problems. Bill Clinton believes that the government should help people equip themselves to solve their own problems. This is a debate with real merits, and one that exposes the central fault lines of American political discourse. It is a debate we can be proud of, and a debate that is worthy of the campaign to elect the first president of the next century...
Dole, however, does not, and he isn't likely to go recruiting now. "All of us have submitted vision speeches," says a Republican Senator, one of many who hoped to equip Dole with some bright flags to mark the boundaries of his beliefs so voters would know where to find him. "All of us wonder what happened to them...