Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Safety experts attributed the high survival rate most of all to the heroics of Captain Haynes in leveling off the DC-10 until the final seconds. "He belongs in the pilots' hall of fame," declared Joe Sullivan, a retired flight engineer for American Airlines. The landing gear, dropped by gravity because of the hydraulics failure, helped support the part of the cabin where most survivors had been seated. The dampness of the cornfield from recent rains cushioned the crash impact. Fire-resistant seat upholstery installed at the insistence of the National Transportation Safety Board was also credited. So too were...
...When the final measure was released, environmentalists rushed to declare defeat. What angered them most was a provision that would allow automakers to build some cars that spew out more hydrocarbons than they do under current law, even though new overall emissions standards would be tougher than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still...
...Herbert demonstrates, were far beyond the ability of men or dogs. Peary's diary, withheld from historians after his death until Herbert analyzed it, proves that he fell short by as much as 30 to 60 miles. So when this strong and single-minded man returned home from his final trip to the far north, a region he had come to feel he owned, his sense of proprietorship required him to claim he had reached the pole. He lied, heroically...
...House forecasters, looking through the rose-colored glasses favored by most Administration economists, calculate a growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "The slowdown is now a reality. It has arrived." Two out of three of the Blue Chip forecasters expect that the economy will fall into a recession...
...final analysis, everyone from corporate chieftains to cab drivers realizes that the expansion cannot go on forever. "Someday, some event will end the extraordinary string of economic advances that has prevailed since late 1982," Greenspan told Congress last week. So far, Greenspan has provided a delicate touch in stifling inflation without making the kind of sudden moves that could trigger a recession. The U.S. may be in for only a brief and relatively innocuous reversal like the one in 1961 rather than the painful contraction of 1981-82, when the unemployment rate averaged 8.7%. The current slowdown...