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Here’s where the airlines can take their next steps: increase safety precautions; up maintenance rigor, tighten inspection standards, and, most importantly, don’t go breaking any more crash statistic records. After all, it’s not enough just to assert that planes are safe—these crashes are affecting nerves more than anything else. Consumer confidence is a powerful thing, and it must be bolstered, or the airline industry itself could be in for a crash...
...proposals are intended to tighten security around employees like Pollard, who held top-secret clearance as a civilian on the counterterrorism staff of the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md. The FBI and the Navy began investigating Pollard after co-workers reported that he had been taking home classified material, and agents have seized a document-filled suitcase with Pollard's name on it. Late in the week the FBI also arrested Pollard's wife, Anne L. Henderson-Pollard, 25, and charged her with unauthorized possession of classified documents...
...passed into law, the tax plan would probably tighten up loopholes first, then cut rates six months later. In the first year, tax breaks would be lost immediately but rates would be cut later, thus giving the Government more revenue. However, this means that many taxpayers, particularly wealthy ones, would not enjoy the full benefits of reduced taxes until the second year of the reform program, probably 1987 or later. Because the proposals have shifted during the past year, tax advisers have little specific advice to offer their clients at this point. But they generally tell taxpayers to make expenditures...
Bejski's 560-page report called for sweeping reforms in the Israeli banking system. The commission suggested that banks be prohibited from managing mutual-stock funds and acting as investment advisers and brokers. In addition, said the report, the Bank of Israel should tighten its regulation of private banks by appointing some of their directors as well as their auditors...
...potential to be top-ten this year, but we let a few matches out of our hands,” O’Riain said. “Hopefully, next year we’ll be able to tighten up a little bit and not lose concentration...