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A blue-ribbon committee of eight experts commissioned by NASA to review the agency's safety procedures has warned that the "concern for safety that peaked after the Challenger accident appears to be waning." The investigators stated that when NASA rated its program managers, safety was "conspicuous by its absence...
Despite strong incentives to settle the dispute at times seemed irresolvable. The bitterness peaked last April, when Texaco filed for Chapter 11 protection to avoid posting a bond to cover the jury award. Charged Texaco Chief Executive James Kinnear: "Pennzoil has placed its own greed above any consideration of fundamental...
Come to a rocky meadow on California's Mount Shasta, where a New Zealander named Neville Rowe tells the encircling crowd of 200 (admission: $10) that he speaks with the voice of Soli, an "off-planet being" who has never actually lived on earth. Dressed in a white-peaked cap...
"It was a Tuesday night, and we weren't even concentrating on the meet," Scalise said. "We were looking past it to a meet at Princeton on Saturday. [Yale] had peaked for us, and we weren't prepared, and some of our swimmers were sick."
In ways unimagined ten years ago, the shadow that has obscured the truth about alcohol has begun to lift. There is encouraging news, and it is substantial. "Silence is each day giving way to courage," Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said recently, "and shame to strength." Evident...