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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board also tried to respond to student complaints about secrecy by issuing a report on its philosophy and methods...
...customers. It employs no independent agents and hires its own adjusters and underwriters. The company's unusually high ratio of 1 employee for each 140 clients allows it to meet high performance standards, like routinely answering all customer mail within a day of receipt. Amica tries to respond to claims in the same speedy manner. The company's adjusters have been known to take extraordinary pains to assist clients in duress. After Hurricane Gloria hit the New England coast in 1985, one Amica homeowner policyholder was unable to get any government agency to remove a ten-ton tree that...
...twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire and flipped on its side into a ditch, followed by two passenger cars that landed one atop the other...
...federal education programs could spell the beginning of the end. Throughout this Administration Congress has resisted cuts in education. Now it's time to turn the tables. The Reagan Administration has precipitated a crisis in higher education. The new Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate can respond by not only protecting the GSL and work-study programs, but also increasing federal grant programs to help mitigate the rising cost of a college education...
Langdon, who has since retired, wrote to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole protesting what he called a "cover-up." Dole did not respond, but FAA Chief Donald Engen says "there is no basis in fact for what Mr. Langdon states . . . When you get down to it, you find it to be a labor-management issue...