Word: plane
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...crew members last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged with not requiring smoke detection and fire extinguishing equipment in the plane's cargo hold...
...restore corporate glory with breakthrough thinking and messianic zeal. Generally, that would describe more than one person. But Jobs is a one-man miniseries of capitalism whose ratings are rising again. Within hours of the announcement, Apple stock soared 33% to $26.31. Sipping a celebratory water on the plane ride home, Jobs pointed out that people had been so shocked they missed the big news: Microsoft would be paying an undisclosed amount to settle claims that it had used seminal Apple computer patents. "Three or four weeks ago," said Jobs, "I called Bill and said Microsoft and Apple should work...
MARTIN LAWRENCE BROUGHT: Unlicensed, loaded Beretta 9-mm semiautomatic EXCUSE: Thought it was O.K. to carry it on the plane if he was going out of state...
...precise and exacting as the cut of his charcoal-gray suit. He took immediate action last week, firing three department chiefs and threatening that more heads will roll unless changes are made. Still, some are skeptical of his ability to tackle a job akin to fixing a plane while flying it. "I can't predict the outcome, but I can predict the effort," Brimmer says. "It will be done...
...does start off with an air crash, not far from a Montana town he calls Marshall. But he declines his own generous offer of melodrama (and of irony too, for that matter) and proceeds to a far more interesting narration that amounts to a kind of anti-melodrama. The plane falls, townspeople grieve and attend funerals. But enemies are not reconciled, deep perceptions are not arrived at, lovers do not see each other more clearly and dearly. Paul and Anita, a shakily married couple, continue to split after wreckage tears off part of their house. The estranged former husband...