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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the crisis-generated "highs" of the substitute controllers will surely start to fade. The FAA's Moss contends that controllers "perform best under stress -they thrive on it." He cites studies showing that collisions in the air occur mainly when traffic is relatively light and when "the stress is off air controllers, and they are not paying attention." Some of the working controllers, who were still putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself...
...great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the Western front." The Reagan Administration plans to stockpile the neutron bombs in the U.S. But they could be deployed in Europe, or any other area threatened by invasion, in a matter of hours. U.S. officials say that such deployment will occur only after consultation with allies...
...losses concentrated at an altitude of about 25 miles. Though Heath acknowledged that his findings could not be tied directly to the chemicals, he pointed out that there is a suggestive link: calculations have shown that if chlorofluorocarbons were, in fact, damaging atmospheric ozone, the greatest harm would probably occur at about 25 miles...
Just hearing things, of course-like listening for waves in a sea shell. It did not occur to the air-traffic controllers to deliver that sort of archaic soliloquy, haunted by scruples. Most of them judged, briskly enough, that their desire for a 32-hour week and a minimum of $30,462 per year superseded the oath to which they once put their signatures...
...built at less than half the 2 million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director of economic research for the National Association of Home Builders, believes that the 1980s could still be a very strong decade for housing. But that will occur only if mortgage rates begin to slip from their current record levels. - By John S. DeMott...