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...particular, the FAA has been especially slow to monitor an increasingly common practice: airlines' using outside contractors to perform routine maintenance and repairs. Although the ValuJet crash is now believed to have been caused by mislabeled oxygen generators rather than an inspection or a mechanical failure, those generators had been prepared for shipping by one such subcontractor, SabreTech Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona, company that handled a number of tasks for the airline...
...empire effect the rundown look and feel of a backwater juke joint, but folk art and antique guitars decorate their walls. A dozen color-TV monitors provide close-ups of the action on stage. The menu offers a melange of Southern dishes, from smothered chicken to spicy quesadillas. The performers are sometimes just as varied: such established blues acts as Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, even reggae star Ziggy Marley. The Los Angeles club has developed such a hot reputation among mainstream musicians that the artist formerly known as Prince called to ask if he could...
...stock price, while in the Merck board, doctors have weighed in with their views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform the research," says Randy Befumo, who composes the Motley Fool Evening News under the nom de cyberspace MF Templar...
Before I arrived in Cambridge, I always thought Harvard had motored to its present grandness with the precision and cold mechanism of a machine: Each expertly-chosen part was ordered to perform its task with efficiency and independence...
...Laitin says the sailing lifestyle, while exhilarating, has put pressure on him to perform. For the past three years, he has basically been on the bench, he says...