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Accusing NASA of negligence, the suit charges that its officials "knew or should have known that the segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur." It also claims that in the seconds before flames from the leaking booster...
Still, optimists usually make the best pioneers. While reluctant to return to NASA, Fletcher is now gung-ho. "I didn't want the job," he says. "But the President persuaded me. He's not called the Great Communicator for nothing." Fletcher sees his short-term priorities as fixing the shuttle...
Dennis Levine was one of Wall Street's hottest young investment bankers. A managing director with Drexel Burnham Lambert, Levine, 33, was glib and gregarious, and had a knack for cultivating clients. In addition, he had a particular gift for obtaining information about impending hostile merger bids and then persuading...
Record numbers of outraged shareholders and creditors of bankrupt firms are dragging accountants into court, demanding to know why the auditors gave no warning of impending disaster. In all, the accounting profession faces an estimated 2,000 liability suits that ask for about $10 billion in worldwide damages. At the...
The general said U.S. officials learned of the impending attack on Saturday and were trying to warn off-duty soldiers at gathering spots in West Berlin when the blast occurred at the La Belle club.