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McDonnell Douglas angrily attacked the FAA for making what it called an "extreme and unwarranted" decision. The company protested that the order grounded all DC-10s when, in fact, the defects have only shown up on the earlier, shorter-range (2,700 miles) No. 10 series. The later series 30 and 40 aircraft (4,000-to 4,600-mile range) are used mainly on transoceanic flights. The engine-and-pylon assembly, however, is almost identical on all three models...
Demonstrations this spring, however, were organized in much shorter time, as nostalgia for the tenth anniversary of the student strike of '69 provided impetus to student concern over the department's problems. Representatives from the Black Student Association (BSA), the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and several other student groups formed a committee in support of the Afro-American Studies Department in early April. The committee first tried to elicit student support for the department by distributing petitions to the Houses, focusing on two of the department's perennial problems: tenured faculty and funding...
...recommended that all federally chartered banks be authorized to offer interest-bearing checking accounts. To offset some of the cost of the higher rates for the savings bankers, who lend out their money at long-term fixed rates, Carter suggested that they should be allowed to 1) make some shorter-term, higher-interest consumer loans and 2) offer home buyers variable-rate mortgages that fluctuate with the cost of money...
...columns for which he won the Pulitzer dealt with tax reform, the ever shorter life spans of trends, inflation, the difference between serious and solemn, loneliness, fear, dying, a boyhood summer, Norman Rockwell and the death of New Times magazine...
...Administration that has been sounding alarms on energy ever since taking office, the optimistic statements by Carter and Schlesinger seemed a remarkable change of direction. For months, Carter has predicted that gas would be scarce all summer, and in even shorter supply next year. Two weeks ago, when Congress refused to give him standby authority to impose gasoline rationing, he angrily accused his opponents of having "apparently put their heads in the sand." Just the day before his meeting with Brown, Carter told 200 business leaders at the White House that the energy crisis "festers like a cancer, sapping away...