Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missing several pages. Due to the incompetence of the proctor, John lost some time and a lot of nerves. Anyone else would have cursed and reported the trouble to the testing agency; but after the test, John helped the proctor move furniture to another room and followed up the mishap by enjoying a calming beer with...
...Currier House residents responded with dismay over last Wednesday's arrests of two fellow house members on drug charges, the father of one student said he learned of the mishap just yesterday afternoon...
Needlessly alarmist? As it happened, no planes came hurtling down, none collided in midair, no one was hurt. So Pittsburgh's mishap barely stirred notice. But such technological glitches are fast becoming routine in the nation's air-traffic-control system. By the National Transportation Safety Board's reckoning, anti- quated tracking equipment freezes up, shuts down or fizzles out all too often. "There is not one day that goes by without our losing radar or radio communication with an aircraft," says Joseph Fruscella, president of NATCA's eastern region. "It compromises safety on a regular basis...
...five old guard shacks, he ran into a federal requirement that the buildings first be offered up as housing for the homeless. When he tried to streamline a rule requiring nine separate signatures before visitors could enter the old production facilities, he was blocked by red tape. After a mishap occurred during the draining of three small plutonium storage tanks in 1994, he found that the job couldn't resume until the entire building had been scoured and 150 workers had been retrained--a process that would have taken five years and cost millions of dollars...
SILVERMAN'S RESPONSE TO MANY OF these hurdles has been to ignore them. After the draining mishap, he went ahead and emptied the three problem plutonium tanks without upgrading the entire building, and he retrained just 12 workers instead of all 150. He slashed the number of signatures needed to get visitors into high-security areas from nine to three. Ignoring bureaucratic protocol, he and Kaiser-Hill excavated toxic soils from an area known as Ryan's Pit without preparing exhaustive studies. Silverman bristles at the seemingly arbitrary personnel rules he's supposed to follow. "Why does it take...