Word: safe
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...than a million senior drivers have completed the American Association of Retired Persons's "55 Alive/Mature Driving" program, an eight-hour driver-education course taught in 17,000 classrooms across the U.S. for a nominal fee. Says Michael Seaton, creator of the A.A.R.P. program: "Older drivers want to be safe on the road. Most have never had a high school driver's-education class, and they enjoy the course." As the A.A.R.P. program and ones like it expand, so too will the odds that older drivers will safely enjoy the open road well into their golden years...
...this thing safe?" asks a reporter who has been assigned to find out what makes the billionaire wheeler-dealer...
...part of a special investigation earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration inspected every aircraft in Eastern's fleet and deemed the airline safe. But Flight 251's harrowing ride rekindled suspicions that metal fatigue induced by changes in cabin pressure during thousands of takeoffs and landings have decreased the margin of safety in commercial aviation. Although older jetliners have been subject to special inspections since 1983, the FAA responded to the Aloha accident by ordering airlines to replace the rivets on 737s built before 1971. Last week the agency announced that a similar order for aging 727s would...
...with many self-help groups, participants who arrive skeptical soon become comfortable as they come to know Life Raft's safe and undemanding atmosphere. The grad student says she has seen people brought to a meeting by a friend who, after being cautions at first, will "absolutely break down and find that the best thing they could possibly do was to let loose." When participants leave the meetings, she continues, "sometimes you feel relieved or sometimes you feel sadder than you did before...
Most experts give high marks to overall airport procedures at Heathrow, where officials have for years contended with the possibility of Irish Republican Army terrorism, and at Frankfurt. Others point out that no airport is completely safe. "Baggage control is pretty good at both Frankfurt and London, but tarmac security remains a weak spot everywhere," says an industry official. "A bomb with a timing device could have been put into the forward baggage hold." According to Pan Am officials, security was tightened after the airline received the FAA advisory, but they refused to say what was done...