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Airline companies are intently focused on efficiency, which means minimizing the amount of time a multimillion-dollar piece of equipment is on the ground. But this short turnaround time might increase vulnerability. An arriving jet is swarmed by 50 or so mechanics, janitors, refuelers, caterers and ramp workers, not all of them airline employees. It's a period of nearly unlimited access by people who may not even know one another. FBI investigators are no doubt interviewing anyone who so much as came near Flight 800 as it was serviced at the gate at J.F.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: NO BARRIER TO MAYHEM | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

After being shepherded up the exit ramp of the FDR Parkway by mounted police, I settled with my friends on a blanket in the middle of the blocked-off highway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Patriotic Epiphany | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

Members hope to use funds from the athletic department to buy equipment such as a ramp and cones, according to Hayler...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: In-Line Skating Club Founded | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...night of last Oct. 25, Smith let her burgundy 1990 Mazda Protege slide down the boat ramp at the lake with her boys inside, strapped into their car seats. As she ran up the ramp, the 23-year-old "good mother," as her friends described her, covered her ears so as not to hear the car splash into the water, nor, perhaps, the cries of her children. She then claimed a black man had carjacked her and taken the boys with him, setting off a nationwide manhunt and a string of public appearances by Smith that ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELEGY FOR LOST BOYS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Wheelchair-bound students may have little problem going for a meal in the Union, but have no hope of dining at Winthrop. Sanders has a ramp...which spent most of this year partitioned off during the construction. The Science Center has elevator service to the basement computer labs, but it is difficult to call an elevator to go back up after-hours...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Adding Insult to Injury | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

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