Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the plane's cockpit voice recorder. The National Transportation Safety Board, which had released a highly censored transcript of the conversation, asserted that disclosure of the entire conversation might hamper investigations of airline disasters. The Air Line Pilots Association warned that pilots might disable their voice recorders to prevent future "invasion of their privacy" but later added that legislation to ban the release of tapes might be proposed instead. What jittery airline passengers were supposed to make of the crew's chitchat, no one could...
...folks at Cliffs Notes can't seem to take a joke. Last week the purveyor of the plot summaries so dear to lazy students won a court battle to prevent Doubleday from distributing Spy Notes, a Spy magazine parody...
...agreement between the manufacturers and the recording industry states that every DAT recorder will contain a computer chip that digitally encodes a signal on the tape when the first copy is made. This inaudible code will prevent a machine from making subsequent copies of that tape. That way, consumers can make a copy of a CD to play in their cars or portable machines, but that copy cannot be used to mass-produce more tapes to give or sell to other people...
Hochschild describes what she calls a stalled revolution, with both men and women following "gender strategies" that prevent progress. Traditional men, those who believe that women should tend children and kitchen even when the family money squeeze forces them to take jobs, actually do more chores in the home than the "transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household...
...surprisingly frank assessment last week that, at least for the moment, a recession has replaced inflation as the leading threat to the U.S. economy. In his midyear report to Congress, Greenspan confirmed that since early June, the Fed had been allowing interest rates to fall in an attempt to prevent the sluggishness from becoming too pronounced. Said he: "What we seek to avoid is an unnecessary and destructive recession...