Word: postmortem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...switch after each task is completed. Copilot Origel has told investigators that he recalled reading the checklist while Buschmann flew the jet, but investigators still haven't been satisfied about why certain steps -- first and foremost the deployment of the wing spoilers -- apparently weren't performed. A mechanical postmortem may help them decide; the wrecked plane got the Flight 800 treatment on Tuesday and was moved to a hangar for autopsy. The plane's spoiler system will be removed and sent to NTSB labs for testing that, in a few weeks, could definitively decide between pilot and mechanical error...
...aftermath of another famous trial, Ogletree used the print, rather than the virtual, medium to offer his analysis. He authored a chapter of the 1996 book Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case titled "Johnnie Cochran and Marcia Clark: Role Models...
Ellroy's prose is hard-hitting and relentless. His self-revelations are just as unflinching. From the non-fiction side of the book, "I hated and lusted for my mother and went at her through postmortem surrogates. I buried her in haste and burned flames for other murdered women. My mother's death corrupted and emboldened my imagination....I majored in crime and minored in vivisected women." It becomes difficult...
...dairy farming and the FBI." But the peculiar nature of the Clinton presidency quickly demanded another type of talent, something not mentioned in a typical job description. Podesta's own description of it was "Secretary of S___." First, there was the travel-office fiasco, in which he wrote a postmortem report that put an unwelcome focus on Hillary's role (and by some accounts, put him on her bad side for a while). He later made amends when he defended the First Lady on Whitewater and on her controversial investment in cattle futures...
...DRIVER Postmortem tests showed that Paul was legally drunk and under the influence of two prescription drugs on the night of the accident. Less known is the fact that Paul's blood contained an abnormally high level of carbon monoxide (CO): 20.7%, enough to provoke somnolence, severe dizziness or even put some people in a coma. "I don't see how he could walk in that state, much less take the wheel," says the head of the antipoison center at a major Paris hospital...