Word: travel
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...With travelers already leery following the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s...
...commercials were divided into five categories: food and Drink, Public Awareness, Products and Services, Travel and Transport, and Entertainment and Leisure. The big winners, not surprisingly, were American, Japanese, and Western European advertisers but the Australians, Russians, and South Americans were not overlooked. The majority of the American winners first aired during the Super Bowl, the launching pad for new, creative commercials. Interestingly the judges at the Cannes Festival usually failed to resist cultural stereotypes, almost all of the winning American commercials were ones for Little Caesar's, Pepsi and Budweiser...
...Young Turks of the Republican Revolution, Salmon, in his first term, sponsored bills to pay the legal expenses of the seven travel-office employees fired by the White House in 1993, to give the families of murder victims the option of attending the murderer's execution and to prohibit executive-branch employees from accepting gifts...
BORN: Nov. 11, 1946, Jacksonville EDUCATION: Florida A&M U, B.S., 1969; U of Florida, Ed.S., 1974 FAMILY: Single; one child RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: College guidance counselor; travel-agency owner POLITICAL CAREER: Florida House, 1983-92; U.S. House 1992- ADDRESS: 5045 Soutel Drive, Jacksonville...
Collins was among the dozens of G.O.P. Congressmen who felt they were sent to Washington to trim the budget, downsize the Federal Government and lower taxes. But he also has paid attention to his constituents, many of whom depend on air travel and the military for their livelihood (the Third is home to Fort Gillem and Hartsfield Airport), supporting the repeal of airline fuel taxes and just about any bill that would increase defense spending...