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...plane, and ultimately has to be paid for by the passenger. Every modern plane is structurally safe according to rigid Government standards, but airlines have been known to put pressure on planemakers to work closer and closer to the lower levels of acceptability. Mechanics do not knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure to keep those planes in the air can be subtly intense. Occasionally, the mechanics slip; in 1961, a Northwest Orient plane's aileron cables were improperly installed, causing...
...minimum necessary to assure the security of our forces and to maintain our military presence until we can achieve a satisfactory peaceful resolution of the conflict. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives...
...France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
...State of the Union message, none was more unexpected than his recommendation for a Constitutional Amendment giving four-year terms to members of the House of Representatives. However, the fact that it was not expected does not mean that it has not been studied not that it is unsound...
...Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that Jeff's brainstorm was basically unsound. Any competent script doctor would second the diagnosis...