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With the goal of cutting the cost of building jetliners 25%, Boeing began by designing its wide-bodied 777 (rolled out in 1996) entirely by computer, eliminating countless drawings and mockups. The company also narrowed parts choices to standard options, much as carmakers offer automatic or manual transmissions, or six-cylinder or eight-cylinder engines. And Boeing has been consulting everyone from marketers to machinists on the making of its planes...
Conservatives have an easy explanation for these forgiving attitudes toward the President's private treatment of women. They say Clinton-loving feminists, as if following the how-to-catch-a-man Rules manual, have chosen to overlook the faults of a man who has been their best provider. Ideals be damned for the President who vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions...
...quite a strong statement by the Court. The employer can't escape liability with just a paragraph in the employee manual," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But the employee still has to prove that her career was threatened in some way, and Jones wasn't able to do that...
...embedded into things like elevators and medical devices are at risk for Y2K foul-ups, says Jim Duggan, research director for the Year 2000 program at the Gartner Group. That's still a lot of chips to be checked, but even many of the suspect ones are programmed with manual overrides or "soft-landing" outcomes where safety is an issue. (Nonetheless, the Gartner Group estimates that litigation costs over Y2K service and product failures, both real and imagined, could soar to $1 trillion or more.) Duggan's forecast for the impact of Jan. 1, 2000, sounds like a tolerable weather...
Yeah, sure, responded skeptical African Americans, from U.S. Congressmen to manual laborers...