Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...far below, near Alta, 60 miles from Sioux City, workers in a seed-corn company's research field returned from a lunch break to a startling discovery. In the midst of the corn stood a cone-shaped piece of wreckage, 12 ft. long and 8 ft. high. On one scrap, an inscription clearly read ENG. 2. Some five miles away, other pieces, including sections of the multiple blades of a turbofan engine, were found...
...National Transportation Safety Board was also credited. So too were the rescue and medical efforts of the Sioux City area. So many doctors responded that there were two on hand for each hospitalized passenger. Local volunteers lined up for more than a block to donate 300 pints of blood, far more than was needed...
Porsche dealers know that Wall Streeters like to show off what they have. But among the pinstripe set, posing for Playboy is going too far. Seven of the nine stock-market workers featured in the August cover story, "Women of Wall Street," have left their jobs since their photo sessions last year. Lisandra Trujillo, a broker for South Richmond Securities, returned to school. But Robin Mormelo, an administrative assistant for the Stuart-James brokerage house, says she was denied raises and felt compelled to quit. Says Mormelo: "Maybe I'm naive, but what difference does it make what...
...naturally, the public is far from content. In part the problem lies with the failure of the profession and the government to police medicine adequately, since the stakes could not be higher. If a stockbroker is incompetent, his client may lose his savings; if a doctor is negligent, his patient may lose his vision, his memory, his mobility or his life. Though the public, the government and the physicians themselves have become more vigilant, the persistent stories of medical mishaps continue to take their toll on patient confidence...
Skirmishing over the clean-air proposals was inevitable. From the start, it was clear that the White House's plan for cutting urban smog and toxic pollutants was far more lenient toward industry than was Bush's widely praised proposal for reducing acid rain. The clean-air plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged...