Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candid memo to United Airlines pilots last month, Captain Lloyd W. Barry, United's senior vice president for flight operations, warned, "I am increasingly concerned about the ever present threat of a midair collision. Within the last twelve months, United crews have averaged 6.3 near-misses per month. Any of these incidents could have resulted in a catastrophe had it not been for the professional skill of our pilots or, in some cases, just plain good luck...
Nouveau-poor Houston had to persuade wary committee members that it still has plenty of money. Although its new convention hall is not yet completed, Developer Joe Russo offered to take out a $5 million policy with Lloyd's of London payable to the D.N.C. if the hall is not finished on time. The city also promised to arrange a Leonard Bernstein benefit concert for the convention, but members seemed just as impressed with another cultural landmark -- they kept buses and motorcades waiting half an hour while they shopped at Neiman-Marcus...
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...ahead for the Auckland challenge. Back in October, several skippers including Connor and Blackaller complained that fiber glass might be an illegal material. The rules state that hulls must be of equal weight and thickness across their entire surface. The Kiwis successfully defended the construction by pointing out that Lloyd's of London had supervised every stage of construction in accordance with the rules...
...architecture critic, Bruno Zevi, who considers her work inspired and sensitive. "In another, she's unsuccessful -- up to now her work has been limited to various forms of 're': refurbishing, renovating, recycling." But after Orsay, there is no doubt that Aulenti -- who lists her primary modernist influences as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and above all the American architect Louis Kahn -- will be seen worldwide as a major architect, not a recycler...