Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that simpler civilian versions would cost just $80,000 per plane. Some inerting gases, however, are potentially lethal: they reduce one danger to passengers but increase another. Cautioned Boeing's chief fuel-system engineer, Ivor Thomas: "We would much prefer to be slow and careful and correct than to rush into something where we find six months later it was the wrong thing...
Said Hall: "I don't think the board wants you all to rush into anything that is unsafe. We do want you to rush into looking at the problem." In this he was supported by the sober-looking crowd at the front of the ballroom. "You look at that," said Barbara Johns, whose 18-year-old daughter Courtney was the first victim identified after the crash, "and you wonder, If these are known safety problems, why aren't they correcting them before people die? That's the answer we'd like--because people we love are still flying...
Will any child want to jump out of bed on Christmas morning and rush off to a Quentin Tarantino film? Can Wag the Dog possibly be mistaken for a Snoopy holiday special? Does the 19th century Australia of Oscar and Lucinda have nearly the same Christmas kick as Scrooge's London? And Woody Allen, musing on death and betrayal--now there's the cure for seasonal depression...
...Dell, the 32-year-old founder of Dell Computers, to find out if there was any hope for us content folks. Surely he would know: his company sells an astonishing $3 million worth of PCs over the Web every day. "We've had days in the heat of Christmas rush that hit $6 million," he says, without a hint of shame. He estimates his $12 billion company will sell $1 billion worth of machines over the Net by year's end, half of them to home users...
Sugar: Now Much Sweeter Than You Here comes a sugar rush that's eight thousand times more powerful. And there's no calories...