Word: safes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Aloha Airlines 737 ripped apart in midair. Since then, cracks have been found in the fuselage of some of the other 429 Boeing 737-100s and 737-200s still flying in the U.S., giving rise to fears that regular inspections are not enough to ensure safe flights...
...distress caused by anesthesia given to the mother. On balance, the benefits of vaginal deliveries after C-sections have long outweighed the advantages of surgical births. Says R. Harold Holbrook Jr., director of maternal-fetal medicine at the Stanford Medical Center: "It's been clearly proved that it's safe to have a natural birth after having a caesarean section...
...billion acquisition of Gulf by Chevron in 1984. The megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially rich source of leverage for a pushy buyer? Concludes James Scott, professor of finance at Columbia Business School: "There is no magic number anymore. There...
...billion bid for RJR Nabisco, is any company safe from the buyout binge...
...Reagan Administration was no less stubborn. Some U.S. officials indicated that they would consider a request for aid from the Nicaraguan government -- a safe bet since they knew none would be forthcoming. Others seemed to rule out even that prospect, charging that the Sandinistas would only misuse the funds to further their campaign against the contras. As partisan politics raged, the losers were the 181,000 Nicaraguans who are now homeless...