Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
...court cases that went to a jury, things are not looking so good for an upcoming trial in St. Paul. The plaintiff, Esther Kociemba of Elk River, Minn., claims that the Copper-7 gave her pelvic inflammatory disease, which left her sterile. Internal Searle documents released by court order suggest that the company knew of physicians' safety concerns about the Copper-7 but kept on selling it. In a 1980 memo, a Searle doctor warned company officials that "all studies with which I am familiar conclude that all IUDs enhance the potential...
Based on the novel by Gogol, the opera has all the marks of a major work except memorable music. Gogol's irresistible tale of the scheming Chichikov (the splendid high baritone Igor Morozov), who would "buy" dead serfs in order to build a bogus prosperity on their collateral, holds the stage splendidly. The handsome duplex set by Designer Valery Levental is a sky- above, mudslinging-below construct. But beyond the "aria portraits" that graphically limn each of the principal characters, Dead Souls contains every cliche in the state manual, including the obligatory lament for the suffering people that has been...
...step down with some assurances of safety. William Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America, flew to Panama City with Deputy Legal Adviser Michael Kozak. After a promising start, the talks stalled when the emissaries refused to guarantee that President Reagan would sign an Executive Order quashing drug-trafficking indictments that two grand juries brought against Noriega last month. In Washington officials denied reports that White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker was prepared to enter the talks as Reagan's personal envoy...
...restore order, Noriega sent soldiers armed with M-16 rifles into the streets. The troops cleared roads and kept crowds from collecting. The military took over all public utilities, restored most electricity service and reopened telephone lines...