Word: hinson
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...little, too late? Probably. TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin reports that the May 11 crash has set off a series of investigations and reviews that could well result in the most serious institutional changes to the FAA since its creation in 1958. As a first step, Administrator David Hinson says the FAA will rewrite rules for air carriers that purchase maintenance services from outside contractors. The FAA will also replace Anthony Broderick, an associate adminstrator, who will retire at month's end. At the same conference, Transportation Secretary Fredrico Pena said he would ask Congress to change...
Ordinarily, that would not be a cause for complaint. But the fact is that they have an extraordinary subject, and you can't help wishing they had been completely up to it. For that reluctant catcher is a woman named Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis). She is the star of the Rockford Peaches, which belongs to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, an organization that remains one of the fascinating footnotes in the history of sports and feminism...
...Philadelphia gates back on the block last year. The company ended up selling those operations to USAir for only $64.5 million. Mainly as a result of that sale, Midway posted a $139.2 million loss last year. Yet with completion of the sale expected next month, Midway chairman David Hinson insists "the worst is now behind us." In light of the fare-cutting mania that has recently gripped air carriers, Midway's 5,700 employees can only hope he is right...