Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central daylight time), as the DC-10 cruised at 33,000 ft. above the tiny town of Alta, Iowa (pop. 1,720), it was jolted. Passengers heard an explosion at the plane's rear, then felt the huge craft shake and pitch downward. In Row 11 of the economy section in front of the wings, Lori Michaelson was traveling with her husband and three children. "I could see the stewardesses looked kind of panicky," she recalled later. That was understandable. One of them had been knocked to the floor...
...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 I do when I'm out of the office...
...impact of possible litigation is felt long before a patient sets foot in the doctor's office. Some physicians, like Linda Bolton, a pediatrician in Birmingham, Mich., try to screen out potential problems. "It really dictates what happens at the office. If I feel I have people who are litigious, I prefer not to take them as patients." In the past, she has fixed her rates only after she has been notified how much she will have to pay for malpractice insurance...
Many members of the class of '68 were figuring how to avoid Viet Nam. His fraternity brother and later business partner, Roland Betts, says that George faced a special pressure: "He felt that in order not to derail his father's political career he had to be in military service of some kind." A 53-week program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull...
Harvard Square felt positively arctic by comparison: the Crimson thermometer registered only 99 degrees at 1:20 p.m. And in the climate-controlled environs of Lamont and Pusey libraries, the thermometer read only 76. But in the lightless depths of the Widener Library stacks, a set of open windows prefigured a 94 degree reading...