Word: rip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aloha plane's fuselage failure will take months for federal authorities to determine, it is believed that metal fatigue created the stress cracks in the plane's laminated-aluminum skin. When the cracks ruptured, the air rushing by began to peel back the roof through the so-called rip stops, the rigid upright supports in the body shell. Investigators surmise that the metal fatigue was hastened by exposure to corrosive salt air and the exceptionally high number of takeoff-and-landing cycles, nearly 90,000, that the 19-year-old island-hopping plane had completed. The number of cycles...
...strikes and runs unseen beneath the rip...
...failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...
...Institutional Policy Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Overseers. President Bok and Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 will act like the travel agents who came to your high school trying to sell you a trip for spring break. Instead of trying to unload a rip-off vacation, though, Bok and Steiner will be trying to push the University's South Africa investment policy...
...special, advertised at $99 for seven days, would actually cost $230.95 for full protection. Consumer advocates argue that many motorists do not need such coverage. "Car-rental companies try to intimidate customers into buying this insurance," says Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization. "It's a rip...