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Then the flight grew livelier. Things went wrong by the alphabet. The RCS (reaction control system) locked in the firing position. The GPC (general purpose computer) went down. Fire broke out in the APB (aft payload bay). Mission Commander Larry Cerier of Chicago and Pilot Bill Parker of Friendswood, Texas, worked out the problems coolly. The right stuff. They even got a little cocky. They began to try out banter over the radio in the style of deadpan macho that astronauts affect. When the fire started, Parker took emergency steps (activating switches to spray the area with a chemical fire...
Even if you do have to distinguish between today's weather and tomorrow's weather, who cares what letter of the alphabet the name starts with, Does anybody care that because the name of the twister starts with a "G," that means it is the seventh one of the year? Given our great concern for the different between cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes, this seems doubtful...
...Americans already baffled by their complex new phone bills and mystified by computers, the confrontation may seem like so much high-tech alphabet soup. But these new developments mean that AT&T and IBM are fighting to be first to provide all the equipment and services for transmitting, storing and processing information for the next century. It is a fragmented, turbulent but potentially rich market...
...those uninitiated is the alphabet group of New England baseball, the EIBL (Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League) is the eight Ivy schools plus Army and Navy, while the GBL (Greater Boston League) consist of Harvard, MIT, B.C., Northeastern, in Branders and Tufts...
That is because though the point may seem crucial to the narrative, it is actually insignificant thematically. What is important is, of all things, the echo. " 'Boum' is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or 'bou-oum,' or 'ou-boum'?utterly dull," is the way Forster rather unhelpfully describes...