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Perhaps such chaos is an inevitable by-product of an economy turned upside down, but aviation experts warn that air travel is an enterprise in which even minute compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...
...dealings with this individual in the past," said Police Chief Paul E. Johnson. He was seen again in the area doing much the same thing and we put out the advisory to warn the students...
...depressed, explosively angry individual who is drinking heavily, ostentatiously collecting guns, or threatening corporate officials -- or all three. The FBI suggests this management technique: send the problem person for counseling. If someone must be let go, be sure the firing is done with sensitivity (never sack by letter, agents warn). Above all, provide retraining and job-placement help. "These are desperate people who feel they've reached the end of their rope," says Van Zandt. "We ought to give them a few more feet...
Washington -- Top Clinton Administration officials have met with the two leading candidates in Colombia's presidential elections, Ernesto Samper and Andres Pastrana, to warn them that the CALI DRUG CARTEL -- which controls 80% of the global cocaine market -- is trying to channel drug money into their campaigns to gain influence. "We are deeply worried about a narcodemocracy developing," says a senior U.S. official. Another concern: DEA and State Department officers believe sensitive information provided to Colombian prosecutors has leaked to the cartel and may have led to the deaths of family members of anti-Cali witnesses. So strong is American...
What inspires such worst-case speculation is the unprecedented size of the derivatives balloon. Its growth has prompted some Wall Street sages to warn that many of the newfangled instruments could be spinning far beyond anyone's control. The Jeremiahs include investment banker Felix Rohatyn, 65, one of Wall Street's elder statesmen, whose son Nicolas, 33, runs a J.P. Morgan department that uses derivatives to transact business in emerging markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. "There's a whole different world in off-balance-sheet transactions that are potentially quite dangerous if people don't know what...