Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelation came during a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of a Continental DC-9 crash that killed 28 people in Denver last November. In a signed statement, Continental Captain Kenneth Watson said that on another flight a few weeks before the crash, he had conducted a test of Frank Zvonek, who later piloted the ill-fated DC-9. "As is my common practice," said Watson, "I advised Frank that I would intentionally make several mistakes. He caught them and corrected...
...Watson's statement was intended to show that Zvonek was a good pilot, the FAA was not so much impressed as it was dismayed by the unusual training procedure. Continental said the Watson method was not approved by the company. The carrier intends to find out if any of its other pilots test one another by purposely making mistakes before taking...
...might never see another home Harvard hockey game again. But hope my spirit will remain in old Watson Rink for all time to come Because in times of greatest victory, I have never felt prouder to be a Harvard student...
...Backstroke: 1. Paul Watson, HARVARD, 1:51.36; 2. Jeffrey Peltier, HARVARD, 1:52.04; 3. Mike Ross, Princeton, 1:52.19; 13. Andy Pardieck, HARVARD, 1:56.04; 15. Paul Ryder, HARVARD...
That dream of course is not a new one, it was the dream of a poor Georgia populist of the nineteenth century. Tom Watson told his followers, poor Southerners, Black and white, in 1892 that: "You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both." It is time we understood this...