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...When a new engine was put on Eastern Airbus No. 208, the normal equipment- installation tests, which typically take several hours, were skipped to free the plane for service. Despite that, King says, the foreman signed a work sheet indicating that the engine had been checked...
...affiliated with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Founded in 1982 as an alternative to what the Times has called the "town's 800-pound gorilla," the mighty -- and liberal -- Washington Post, the five-day-a-week paper has not entirely erased its image as a "Moonie" sheet tainted by its owners' politics. Still, the Times has gained a place at some of the capital's most powerful breakfast tables, and is among the few newspapers that are regularly excerpted for Ronald Reagan's daily news briefing book. Chief of Staff Howard Baker has noted that both...
...perfunctory announcement: "I have always known Ray Donovan as a man of integrity, and I am happy to see this verdict." But several newspapers once critical of Donovan turned on Merola for bringing an unsupportable indictment. Said the New York Daily News: "Donovan's entitled to his clean sheet -- and a lot of anger. Mario Merola deserves his black...
...Since 1978, when Frank Bennack Jr. was named president, Hearst has spent $1.4 billion acquiring more than 20 companies, including three TV stations, ten daily newspapers, two magazines (Esquire and Redbook) and two book companies (Arbor House and William Morrow & Co.). Since the company remains privately owned, the balance sheet is a closely held secret. Industry observers calculate that Hearst's gross revenues last year totaled $1.9 billion, leaving an estimated pretax profit of $285 million...
...mining tycoon and Senator from California, tried to dissuade his son by offering him the chance to manage a ranch in Mexico or a gold mine in South Dakota. But William Randolph Hearst, then 23, would have none of it. He wanted to run a newspaper, specifically a tawdry sheet in San Francisco called the Examiner. Father relented; in 1887 young Hearst assumed control of the Examiner and proceeded to build the largest newspaper empire...