Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failing because it was built to operate on 24 volts while the T-3's electrical system produces 27. Even the plane's rather simple but critical cockpit gauges suffer from "extremely low" reliability, investigators wrote. "I don't know what testing went into all those different changes," Captain Pat Derock, a T-3 instructor pilot, told Air Force investigators. "Some of the modifications were probably not completely or thoroughly tested...
...Captain: Pat Brownlee...
...among others, television evangelist, supporter of the death penalty and Ralph Reed mentor Pat Robertson has come out as one of Tucker's ardent supporters, requesting that Republican Gov. George Bush, Jr., commute her death sentence, something the 18-member Board of Pardons and Paroles, Verhovek notes, has not recommended in more than 10 years...
...what has Greenspan done to earn such raves? Lately, errr... well...nothing. During the past 23 months, the Fed has made only one change in interest rates: a quarter-point increase last March. But standing pat in this case is a positive accomplishment. Greenspan has resisted pressure from nervous Nellies inside and outside the Fed to slam a monetary brake on the economy. The nation's foremost inflation hawk now seems to accept the idea that unlike in the past, deep changes in the economy have made sustained growth possible without pushing prices...
...nuclear-test ban to a boundary agreement between the U.S. and Cuba. And, as shown by the defeat of major free-trade legislation last month, Congress seems less inclined than in the past to join international movements. The nationalist passions reflected in the candidacies of Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan have sunk deep into Republican politics: just before Congress adjourned this year, it refused to pay $1 billion in back dues to the U.N. or to contribute the $3.5 billion the International Monetary Fund was asking to help stabilize Asia's economies...