Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharp break with past airline- industry practices. In recommending the changes, safety experts tacitly acknowledged that more repairs and replacement should be done automatically as a plane ages rather than after inspections reveal problems. "Everybody in the industry is on the alert now," says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia- based International Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation research group. "Aging aircraft can be a very, very serious problem...
...excellent choice," said Sen. Charles Robb, the freshman from Virginia who was one of the last Democrats to announce his opposition to Tower...
...joint statement issued by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the Senate Armed Services committee chairman, and Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the committee's ranking Republican, the senators said Cheney "is well known and highly respected by the members of the Senate. We have worked with him on many issues involving national defense and intelligence matters...
Wavering Democrats Charles Robb of Virginia and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut spread the word that they would announce their intentions before...
...which Vice President Quayle could break in Tower's favor. That also looks like a long shot. Aides at week's end could produce the names of only three or four Democratic Senators susceptible to conversion. Besides Tower's fellow Texan Lloyd Bentsen and Charles Robb of * Virginia, the list included such unlikely possibilities as Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. White House aides point out that Tower cast one of five votes against the censure of Dodd's father Thomas, who was charged with misuse of campaign funds when the two men served in the Senate during...