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...landing, four tires blew out as the pilot braked to a stop. When the jetliner screeched to a halt, the forward passenger door flew open, sucking in oxygen and releasing smoke. Though well prepared by the crew for emergency evacuation, passengers had barely 30 seconds to slide down rubber emergency chutes and run 100 ft. before the fuselage erupted in flames. Said one survivor: "Five minutes before landing, we couldn't see anything in the plane for the smoke. It was the kind of situation where you expect someone to scream...
Heavy industries such as autos, steel, rubber and shipbuilding that were once synonymous with American industrial might have rapidly declined. Some 211,000 autoworkers, or 19% of the industry's blue-collar work force, are on indefinite layoff. In the steel industry, which is operating at only 42% of capacity, 119,000 workers are idle...
...allow its basic industries to atrophy and still remain a major industrial and military power? McDonald's now employs more workers than U.S. Steel. Can such trends continue? Business leaders in the older sectors of the economy insist that they cannot. Says John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "It's utter nonsense that we are going to become a high-tech and a service economy. The high-tech companies have more manufacturing offshore than here. The idea that we can have an economy by selling hamburgers to each other is absurd...
...consistent rejection of promising junior professors whom Harvard would sometimes do well to gamble on, Finally, an unfortunate side effect of Rosovsky's centralized decision-making style has been the demotion of the Faculty as a whole from a lively forum for high-level debate to a rubber stamp for Faculty Council decisions...
...stuff of revolution, but it was heady enough to inspire many rightist students to lead last week's more violent demonstrations in Paris, where dozens were injured and more than 100 arrested. In Cannes, about 500 medical students disrupted the annual film festival by building bonfires of smoking rubber tires in front of the festival site, until dispersed by police with tear gas. Protesters also clashed with police in Lyon and Bordeaux...