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...vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
...this useful work of reportage, Baker, who recorded the recollections of Viet Nam veterans in his 1982 oral history, Nam, gathers the gripes, boasts, rationalizations and cathartic horror stories of more than 100 police officers of both sexes. This is cassette journalism, immediacy spun from miles of tape, and because Baker does not identify the speakers or their communities, it is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. But the words ring true, even if it is fairly selective truth...
...billion. The slimmed-down company plans to focus on its aerospace, automotive and chemicals groups. As part of the restructuring, Allied-Signal plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs and take other cost-cutting measures that should generate savings of about $250 million a year. The divisions to be spun off include Allied's health and energy subsidiaries...
...American operations before moving to First Interstate in 1976. He was promoted to chairman of First Interstate's bank holding company in 1978. Pinola is well aware that from 1927 to 1956 his bank was part of the Bank of America empire founded by A.P. Giannini and eventually was spun off as an independent after Congress passed a law that mandated the divestiture. Pinola's dream is to rejoin his twelve-state regional firm with BankAmerica's single-state, 895-branch sprawl to become what one First Interstate executive calls the "premier retail bank in America." Pinola's idea...
...further incentivized the departure of its fund managers by supporting those who strike out on their own: roughly a quarter of the current endowment is invested by outside managers who “spun out?...