Word: typed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desk job is supposed to be safe. No one needs a hard hat to type a memo or protective goggles to shuffle paper. But as the work force migrates from the shop floor to the corporate cubicle, millions of people face what some think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory...
Most of the FBI affidavits explaining the search warrants remained under seal, pending indictments. But one revealing warrant in St. Louis provided a glimpse of the type of cases the investigators are developing. The target was Paisley, a veteran Boeing Co. official hired by Lehman in 1981 as his top procurement aide. Paisley was a tough administrator who laudably joined his boss in trying to shake up the Navy's cozy relationship with contractors. He quit in April 1987, just before a new law went into effect barring Defense procurement officials from having business relationships with the department...
Last week the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced that Beech, based in Wichita, had met Government standards for airworthiness with its Starship, and granted "type certification," clearing the way for deliveries to customers by next spring. Piaggio, which has headquarters in Genoa, Italy, hopes to receive U.S. certification for its Avanti model by the end of the year. Both planes, each seating seven to ten passengers, are expected to be warmly welcomed in the corporate market. Says Henry Ogrodzinski, communications director of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association: "It looks like ((both firms)) have come up with a winner...
Elements of the design are as old as powered flight itself. The original Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer was of the canard type, with a pair of horizontal stabilizers mounted in front of the pilot. Though the shape had certain advantages in slow-speed flight -- it was highly resistant to stalls -- it proved too unstable at high speeds, and was eventually abandoned in favor of aircraft with stabilizers fixed to their tails. Now, with computers available to design planes and with fly-by-wire controls to help steer them, Beech and ) Piaggio have revived the original concept...
...Mainers of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts are not the type to be seen at L.L. Bean. They live in a town that is inappropriately named Miracle City, a collection of raw shacks and trailers hard by an automobile junkyard whose owner, Lucien Letourneau, is a down-East version of Big Daddy. Chute skillfully spot-welds an assemblage of impressive vignettes and character sketches, but she has difficulty hooking up the narrative drive...