Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found in DC-10s operated by United Continental and Trans International Airlines, but were judged not dangerous by FAA inspectors. Some cracks also turned up in another jumbo jet, a Boeing 747 operated by Pan American. These too were considered by FAA investigators to be not critical, and no reason for grounding the nation's commercial fleet of 121 Boeing 747s...
...were the company, deposed Chairman J. Thomas Kenneally, Senior Vice President Herman Frietsch, former General Counsel Raymond Hofker, former Treasurer Albert Angulo and Chief Engineer Harlan Stein. The SEC asked the court immediately to appoint an agent to take over the company's records and oversee its activities. Reason...
Real-life trials are still rare television viewing. In the '50s, every state except and Texas banned televised trials and Texas gave up on them in the mid-'60s. But in the past three years, 14 have opened up their courts to cameras.* The reason: new technology and changed attitudes have begun to tip the scales in a longstanding debate. The argument for TV cameras in the courtroom is simple enough: the public ought to be able to see what goes on at a trial. The argument against is that jurors will be distracted, that witnesses will...
...reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula...
...before Freud, well before the technologies of organ transplants and genetic tinkering that make the laboratory creation of life ever more plausible. Yet the young author, only 19 when she began her tale, guessed horrible possibility that increasingly haunts the modern mind. It is not just the sleep of reason that brings forth monsters; reason working at its loftiest pitch can do the same job just as well...