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...case last October, a worker inadvertently carried a 14-in. plastic duct past a running engine on an A300 Airbus, which sucked the part out of his hands and into its intake. According to the carrier's machinists' union, a mechanic wanted to take the engine apart, but a foreman overruled him, and four months later the engine blew up after the plane took off from Miami. The airline denies any connection between the incidents. In a separate episode in February, a Continental 747 taking off from London's Gatwick Airport abruptly lost power in one engine. The plane came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Aircraft Safety: How Safe Is The U.S. Fleet? | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...minority hiring, that will be a victory. Second, if its role models that you're after, break out of your ethnic shell a bit and look to the white faculty along with those few who are not. That's a big part of what Harvard is about. Christopher H. Foreman '74 University of Maryland

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...million negligence suit against the combative, Rambo-lining magazine. Last week a federal jury in Houston ordered the magazine to pay $9.4 million in damages. "We're sending out a message to other publishers that ads placed in a certain context can be very dangerous," said the jury's foreman. The - magazine will appeal, arguing that free speech would be inhibited if it had to scrutinize every ad message for veiled implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Loaded Ad | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...evidence just kept coming up all the time," said Towana Braxton, the foreman of the federal court jury that convicted Nofziger of three counts of illegally representing private clients at the White House within a year of his resignation from Reagan's staff in January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury Finds Reagan Aide Nofziger Guilty | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

...Murderers! Murderers!" yelled an enraged black spectator at the trial in New York City as the jury foreman announced the verdict. Two white teenagers, charged with chasing a black man out of their Howard Beach neighborhood to his death on a freeway, had been acquitted of murder and convicted, along with a third youth, on the lesser charge of manslaughter. A fourth had been found innocent of all charges. Though the gray decision satisfied the victim's mother, it could not dispel all the passions that have arisen among both blacks and whites since the tragedy one year ago made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manslaughter, Not Murder Black and white, and gray | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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