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...Boeing issued a service bulletin on 747 models 100, 200 and 300 carrying Pratt & Whitney or Rolls-Royce engines, both of which use the fuse-pin assembly being investigated. The company said it had not located any of the pins from either crash but had still "decided it was prudent to request an inspection." The FAA followed up with a mandatory directive to airlines worldwide requiring them to inspect the pins. The order does not ^ cover the newest 747, model 400, which uses a different engine-attachment system...
...prudent step taken to find out what'sgoing on and if there are grievances out therethat we don't know about," Connors said...
Still, small cracks are showing in the President's facade. Confidants say he privately sounds "wounded" by a public that takes for granted his leadership in the Gulf War and his prudent oversight of communism's collapse. Sometimes this petulant attitude slips out in public, as when Bush recently observed that despite his signing a historic nuclear weapons treaty with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the public remains fixated on the economy and asks, "What have you done for us lately...
From the beginning, Perot chafed at the arrangement. Rollins, in charge of day-to-day operations, drafted an expansive budget of $150 million, including a direct-mail campaign and broadcast advertising. But Perot's two longtime business associates, Tom Luce and Morton Meyerson, decided that it would be prudent if they, rather than Rollins and Jordan, presented the spending plan to Perot. Luce feared a volcanic reaction from the boss and wanted to spare the new recruits...
...regional balance, foreign-policy experience and aged wisdom. The fact is, the only problem Clinton had to avoid was a post-selection examination that could find his No. 2 wanting. With Gore, the chances for such a disaster are minimized. He is, as the ticket's pollster says, a "prudent" choice. Having run for President himself four years ago, Gore comes to the '92 race pre-scrutinized. He could turn people off (he can bore and appear obsequious, and sanctimony is often his stock in trade), but Al Gore will not embarrass...