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...were to go to court they may determine that the permit was issued in error and Harvard might have to send some steel beams back," he added...
Under such circumstances every acquisition entails a sacrifice, and there is no margin for error or whim. The Wells children stay home from class skating trips because Sandy cannot manage the $1.50 for skate rental. "They know the value of money, my kids do," she says. "They get money, they don't spend it on candy or toys. They say, 'Mom, I want to buy shoes for school.' " But every now and then, when equanimity ruptures, the family will splurge. One time last fall, Sandy recalls, "we paid the lot rent and we had, like, $40 left. It was supposed...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME on Aug. 23 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...roughly 13 a year.) In other words, the world could face a massive air catastrophe every two to three weeks. Why? Boeing concludes that while traffic in the sky is increasing, the installation of cockpit warning systems and landing-guidance devices is not. The survey found that flight-crew error was ruled responsible for 73% of fatal accidents. Of these, 41% occurred during landings, often because of unstable approaches. Among other remedies, Boeing endorses worldwide use of pilot warning systems. It also urges airlines to monitor all flight-recorder data and review performances with the crews. Most foreign carriers...
...test, which employs a form of learning made famous by Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, identified 19 of 20 people who had been diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's, said Diana Woodruff-Pak. But it also put seven of 20 healthy subjects in the same category, an error rate that must be reduced, she said...