Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resented all the buttons and the candlelight vigil--it seemed to be going overboard just over a fruit," says Jessica...
...Avenue house, where Gerard saw a large cooler locked with a chain and a large rolled-up rug in the garage. Thomas and Gerard then sailed out to sea. Some 75 miles off Stone Harbor, N.J., Thomas tied an anchor to the contents of the cooler and tossed them overboard. Gerard saw a "human foot and a part of a calf sinking into the water." Investigators believe they were Anne Marie...
...equation suddenly seesaw the other way? Partly because clinical trials reveal only the most obvious side effects; the heart-valve changes discovered over the summer do not initially cause visible symptoms in most patients. Also, many doctors went overboard, giving Redux and fen/phen to patients who were merely overweight, not obese, a violation of the FDA and drug-company prescription criteria that couldn't help skewing the risk-benefit ratio...
What happens to the dead and dying animals that constitute this so-called by-catch? Most are simply dumped overboard, either because they are unwanted or because fishery regulations require it. In 1993, for example, shrimp trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico caught and threw away an estimated 34 million red snappers, including many juveniles. By contrast, the annual catch of red snapper from the Gulf averages only around 3 million fish. Indeed, so many snappers are being scooped up as by-catch that the productivity of the fishery has been compromised. Fortunately, there is a solution. Shrimp nets...
Schiavo has challenged high-level people in a rotten system. Where there is big money there is greed, and corporate ethical standards are thrown overboard in many airlines. The industry operates with the concept of "an acceptable level of accidents,'' typical cost-vs.-benefit thinking. Technical maintenance and pilot training are not only important safety items, they are also very expensive. There is a big difference between the minimum standards employed and the highest standards reasonably achievable. When the FAA watchdogs are not watching, guess which the public is offered? KNUT ANFINDSEN, Retired Flight Captain Stabekk, Norway...