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...temptation to blame the plane comes largely from a confusion between experimental aircraft and ultralight planes. Both became hugely popular in the mid-1980s after a series of product-liability lawsuits drove the makers of conventional small planes--Piper Cubs, Cessna 150s and other single-engine aircraft--to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over...
Moskowitz's most drastic impact, though, has been in Jerusalem itself. Since the mid-1980s he has used his personal fortune, the size of which is unknown, to buy up Arab-owned properties in East Jerusalem and pay for settlers to live in them. Janet Aviad, a leader of the group Peace Now, says, "Moskowitz is the biggest backer of Jews moving into East Jerusalem." She counts at least 10 buildings he has bought from Arabs there and estimates that he has invested nearly $20 million in the enterprise altogether...
...practice breaking ground. "I spent my childhood on a Wisconsin farm with Depression-era parents who taught me to fear disaster," he recalls. He studied law at the University of Wisconsin and in the early 1980s helped engineer Conrail's financial turnaround. In the mid-1980s, as president of Central Maine Power, he steered the divestiture of the controversial Seabrook nuclear plant. Rowe compares himself to the pilot of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, "navigating shifting waters" where "the shore is never quite the same...
...mid-1980s, Ma moved to U.S. News and World Report and was named deputy editor...
DIED. RICHARD MARSH, 58, veterinary virologist who in the mid-1980s sounded an early warning that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, could be spread through feed containing cattle by-products; of cancer; in Middleton, Wisconsin...