Word: tacks
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PILOT DISCORD ON NO. 111? When Swissair flight 111 crashed off Nova Scotia last fall, many experts were surprised that the pilots turned out to sea to dump fuel--a standard emergency tack but one that may have given the plane's suspected wiring problem enough time to force the craft down. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that a preliminary summary of a cockpit recording showed that co-pilot Stefan Lowe suggested landing immediately but was overruled repeatedly by Captain Urs Zimmermann, who focused on the procedural checklist...
That's just one example of how Microsoft has become its own worst enemy in this trial. Another, of course, is Gates' famously evasive videotaped testimony. Until now, Microsoft has rapped the feds for taking "snippets" of its CEO's comments out of context. But on Monday, Gates changed tack, accusing Boies of asking deliberately "ambiguous questions" and then sandbagging Microsoft by airing the tapes. If he'd known they were going to be played in court, Gates said, he would have "smiled a little...
...Espy," says TIME Washington Correspondent Vivica Novak. "He should have focused his case instead." The trial went on for two months and involved a parade of 70 witnesses. Espy's acquittal is likely to have further political ramifications: Smaltz's four-year inquiry ran up a $17 million bill. Tack that on to the $40 million spent by Kenneth Starr to pursue Bill Clinton and the "Smaltz investigation is likely to become one more factor that will lead to the demise of the Independent Counsel statute when it expires next year," says Novak...
...militarily dubious, the new tack played well politically. It pacified congressional critics who have clamored for Saddam's removal, and papered over any perception left by the bombing U-turn that the dictator was getting off scot-free. But a sizable portion of the capital took Clinton's pledge as political snake oil, a shift designed to make a show of doing something rather than actually doing anything...
...officials investigating the Clinton/Gore '96 reelection drive -- and the possible misuse of soft money for issue advocacy ads -- are finding Bill Clinton a voluble target. TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says that Clinton's guilt or innocence still depends largely on intent, and that means Clinton's best tack is cooperation early and often -- starting with a nonconfrontational interview Monday with Reno's investigators...