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Most intriguing, she says, was the presence ofa Navy P3 Orion, an airplane full of electroniccounter measures, that crossed 6,300 feet aboveFlight 800, intersecting its latitude andlongitude "the moment the catastrophe began...
...unethical practices, a three-year study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found. In fact, a majority of hunters oppose the very practices that reformers are seeking to outlaw, according to a 1992 study by Idaho's fish and game department. Says Jim Posewitz, founder of the Orion Institute, a hunters' group promoting reform: "Unless we address some of these practices that work to erode the concept of fair play, they will be addressed...
...they make the big deal, what then? It is one achievement, and a conspicuous one, to create a $2 billion corporation in a few months. It is another to sustain it. The carcasses of Orion, Zoetrope, the Ladd Co. and a dozen more litter the off-ramps of the Hollywood Freeway. In the next decade or so, plenty more virtual studios will get lost in cyberspace...
...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...
...chums will have to keep working -- and praying -- to make their studio flourish. Huge investments in scripts, real estate and a large staff are always vulnerable to the fickleness of the marketplace. Such ambitious outfits as First Artists, Orion Pictures, the Ladd Company and Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios all came and, sooner or later, went under. With the iffy exception of TriStar, formed in 1982, no successful major studio has started from scratch since Disney in the 1920s...