Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week the Air Transport Association, the airlines' trade group, is expected to recommend some 200 changes in federal regulations that govern maintenance. One especially significant proposal: to remove airliners from service after a specified level of wear and tear, perhaps 80,000 cycles, and rebuild the planes from the wheels up. Says A.T.A. Vice President William Jackman: "It's a first step in a series of safety measures . . . a major effort by the airlines and planemakers to assure the airworthiness of passenger aircraft." With planes falling to pieces in the sky, passengers will appreciate that...
High winds battered the mountain on the day of Luce's summit try, and she hung back, breaking off from Tabin, her climbing partner, and her summit group's Sherpas. Then Luce (no relation to TIME's co-founder) decided to try for the top. At some point her goggles fogged, so she took them off. By that time the men had passed her on their way down. She reached the top alone, dulled and sluggish, and stayed about five minutes, not bothering with photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What...
...country's hot multiracial band Savuka. Its more reportorial pieces have documented the detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that the show crosses the line between journalism and advocacy. But staffers insist they are open to many views and regularly solicit South African officials for comment. "We strive for journalistic credibility," says O'Connor, "but we have no problem being identified as antiapartheid...
...professionals who have become disenchanted with the stodgy ritual and sanctimoniousness of many traditional churches. "This is the generation that grew up on television," says Hybels. "You have to present religion to them in a creative and visual way." The multimedia weekend services are primarily intended to attract this group into the church. Holding them together is the job of the more Bible-based Wednesday-evening services and the church's 70 subministries. In addition to offering the traditional Sunday school programs and Bible-study groups, Hybels ventures ; into more arcane activities such as counseling for sexual addiction and personal...
...harassment. I went to the proper judicial channels of Harvard University. The BGLSA, prompted by the student who had harassed my friend, chose to do otherwise and held the Kiss-in. I was told by Harvard administrators before the Kiss-in not to discuss the Sunday case. The other group, however, felt free...