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Schiavo has challenged high-level people in a rotten system. Where there is big money there is greed, and corporate ethical standards are thrown overboard in many airlines. The industry operates with the concept of "an acceptable level of accidents,'' typical cost-vs.-benefit thinking. Technical maintenance and pilot training are not only important safety items, they are also very expensive. There is a big difference between the minimum standards employed and the highest standards reasonably achievable. When the FAA watchdogs are not watching, guess which the public is offered? KNUT ANFINDSEN, Retired Flight Captain Stabekk, Norway...
...have begun to visit it more and more, and to be taken in by its charms. I have found myself stopping for a leisurely lunch, striking up conversations, and even (gasp!) studying there once in a while. What I have started to find is that Loker spoils me rotten: I get to see members of my first-year proctor group I had lost touch with over the years, to bump into a visiting student living off campus who actually went to my high school, and to see the woman I hosted one pre-frosh weekend enjoying her choice to come...
...stop scandal. Since scandals have become a norm, rather than a deviation, I would venture to say that the only thing that would worry the public would be the sudden disappearance of scandals. The average Joe figures that "those bastards in Washington are gonna be up to something rotten," so he may as well know what it is. If all of a sudden he stopped hearing about the corruption, he would be convinced that the government was hiding something, in which case it would be time to sound the alarm. The fact is that in the people's judgment, qualities...
Apple's future is not "rotten at the core," as Davis claims. Apple will ship this year both Mac O.S. 8 (code-named Tempo, a complete revitalization of the Macintosh interface, which includes significant performance and stability improvements) and its first release of the Nextstep-derived Rhapsody, which promises to put Microsoft back on the defensive...
...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...