Word: intercom
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THEN the pilot's gleeful voice came over the intercom. "Hey, we've got some winners!" he chortled. "We're one-and-a-half minutes late...
Drexel's staff got the word in a terse statement from chief executive Frederick Joseph over the firm's intercom. Joseph refused to take questions and quickly signed off, leaving stunned employees to hunt for scarce jobs in an already depressed Wall Street market. Drexel's layoffs, which began Friday, will add thousands more workers to the 37,000 already dismissed by investment firms in the past two years, almost 10% of Wall Street's work force. In a final bitter send-off, the firm's employees, who owned 54% of Drexel's stock, saw the value of their holdings...
...machines, which feature touchtone dialing, an emergency police access button, a two-way intercom and no handset, are expected to be last longer than their predecessors, Tassinari said...
Other security measures that have been tested include staff training in handling emergencies, patrols by highly visible guards and police vehicles, two-way intercom systems so that trouble can be reported instantly, and cash awards to students who report problems. Along with the usual fire drills, some schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland have scheduled "yellow-code alerts" for classes from kindergarten up. "We have to teach students to hit the deck when the bullets fly," explains one preparedness expert...
...voice on the intercom shouted, "Brace! Brace! Brace!" Four minutes later, some ten seconds short of the runway, the DC-10's right wing dipped, slicing into the dirt to the left of the asphalt. The plane plowed into the ground and flipped over twice before finally landing on its back. In a cloud of dirt, smoke and flying metal, the plane broke into ever smaller pieces as parts of its fuselage hurtled across the runway and into a cornfield...