Word: overworks
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ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...
...have known? Speer joined the National Socialist Party in 1931. Within a few years he had become a member of Hitler's small circle of intimates. Named Germany's war-production czar in 1942, Speer ran the munitions factories where hundreds of thousands of slave laborers died of overwork and malnutrition. To many skeptics, his protestations at Nuremberg and in his best-selling memoirs (Inside the Third Reich, The Secret Diaries) smack of deep denial and cover...
...when chained, require fewer guards) and getting tough with criminals. Fortunately, today's crews do not have to wear the heavy ankle irons that used to cause "shackle poison" (the new, handcuff-like shackles are made of lighter metals). Nor, in theory, will the men have to endure the overwork, beatings and disease that led to death rates as high as 45% among "classic" chain gangs. Still, working on a '90s-style gang is no picnic: inmates will be toiling through 12-hour workdays in the hot Alabama sun, serving sentences as long as 90 days. "If they...
...head of Harvard joins a recent list of famous flameouts," says the article, which focuses on both prominent and ordinary Americans who have been effectively crippled by stress and overwork...
...Overwork contributed to Rudenstine's exhaustion which forced his surprise medical leave of absence last November, officials said...