Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson has won the support of some white liberals, but the folks in Thomasville are still wary. White Democrats rallied behind Sen. Albert J. Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.) on Super Tuesday, hoping to prevent a Jackson victory in their state...
...almost nine months following the Oct. 19, 1987, crash, U.S. financial markets failed to install any substantial safeguards to prevent a recurrence. The delay prompted calls for new regulations and frightened individual investors away from the stock market. Last week, in a surprising show of cooperation, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange proposed safety measures in response to concerns raised by several Government studies of the crash...
...impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper cup. "This is what they could have done to protect my client," he announced...
...computers of advanced aircraft like the A320 are also programmed to prevent pilot error by limiting the plane's response to dangerous commands. But some pilots believe such safeguards could be a handicap in emergency situations that require sudden maneuvers, like those necessary to avoid a collision. Says John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "A computer can only react to the possibilities that have been programmed into it." Some experts speculate that because the Airbus jet's wheels were down as it swooped over the air show, the computers might have been tricked into thinking...
...Every case we prevent is a life saved," explained Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, head of the A.M.A.'s AIDS task force. The doctors may also have had in mind a few lawsuits that have been filed seeking damages from physicians who did not warn partners of AIDS victims. Gay rights groups and civil libertarians object that the rule will drive AIDS underground: if victims think doctors will expose them, they will simply avoid seeing physicians...