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...tail assembly and the repairs were examined visually after the work was done, according to Hiroaki Kohno, general manager of JAL's maintenance planning department. There was no need for X-ray examination, he said, because "we had full access to the damaged area from the underside." Could some damage have been overlooked at that time? "That cannot be completely ruled out," Kohno conceded, "although that probability would be very...
...able to compete, but a burgeoning number of entrepreneurs think they can. Americans are eating out more than ever, and more than ever they are eating fast food. Since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in a Chicago suburb back in 1955 (burgers: 15¢), fast food has grown to a $45 billion business. The increase from ten years ago is nearly fourfold. From burgers to fried chicken to pizza, fast food has become the quintessentially American dining experience: a perfect expression of those bedrock values of efficiency, thriftiness and speed...
Gorbachev did offer one slight ray of hope on Afghanistan. The Soviets did not want to keep their troops there indefinitely, he declared, hinting that the Kremlin was searching for some kind of political solution...
With a few prominent exceptions, design in the computer industry has tended to be an afterthought, a matter of fashioning inoffensive shells for cathode-ray tubes. Larry Vollum, a recent California State University graduate, won the first Burroughs design competition with an approach of a deeper sort. His MUSE prototype, a small computer grafted onto a versatile high-tech music stand, is the equivalent of a word processor for composers, performers, students and teachers. It enables them to add, change or erase notes and chords at will, add rhythm accompaniment, and play back part or all of a composition...
Another subject that raises questions is U.S. air-traffic controllers. "We're on the border in air-traffic control," says Russell Ray Jr., president of San Diego-based Pacific Southwest Airlines (P.S.A.). "It's getting close." Some 14,000 controllers now direct U.S. air travel, down 13% from the size of the work force just before President Reagan fired strikers in 1981. Of those now employed, only 57% are considered fully qualified, as compared with 82% who held that rating before the strike. One possible result: the number of near misses between aircraft reached a record...