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...blue-ribbon panel finds air-safety agency short on skills...
...only way to force reforms in air safety. The crash 14 months ago in Chicago of an American Airlines DC-10, a disaster that killed 273 people when the plane's engine fell off, may be one such case. After six months of study, a blue-ribbon panel of 13 aviation experts headed by George M. Low, NASA's longtime No. 2 man and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, last week released a firmly critical 118-page report that could lead to a major overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Government's principal agency...
MEDIUM SHOT: The road, a thin white (should we? yes) ribbon sprinting toward the horizon...
Along with its successes, however, Blue Ribbon has garnered a few problems. The much ballyhooed "air sole" shoe, which had a tiny gas-filled bag in the sole, flopped at first because of too little gas pressure. Blue Ribbon, moreover, may be beginning an expensive squabble with Runner's World magazine, the Baedeker of the sport. Nike charges that the magazine's annual ranking of shoes has given higher ratings to its competitor, Brooks Shoe Manufacturing Co., because of business links between that company and the magazine. Runner's World has countered with a $6 million suit...
...champion shoe company's biggest challenge now may be to raise larger amounts of capital so that it can introduce new products and keep ahead of the pack. So far, Blue Ribbon has grown on the strength of reinvested profits with some limited outside backing, but in the near future it could be forced to go public or merge with a larger firm. Levi Strauss is rumored to be one possible partner; such a merger would complete Levi's mastery over the youthful wardrod of blue jeans and running shoes...