Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just three hours apart last Thursday morning at the cavernous Sheraton Washington Hotel, site of the international convention of the Jewish service organization B'nai B'rith, first Walter Mondale and then Ronald Reagan trooped to the podium to speak on the hottest issue to develop so far in the political campaign−not war or taxes or the deficit, but rather the proper relationship between politics and religion...
...minds of College officials, this network of graduate students and other College employees as advisers set the Harvard freshman experience apart from those of other colleges, which often have upperclassmen living in freshman dorms acting as resident advisers...
...head of the X-29A project for Grumman. "No human could handle the multitude of adjustments necessary to keep this bird in stable flight." So three computers do the work for the pilot, making 40 adjustments a second to the wings and canards to keep the plane from ripping apart. In effect, the pilot guides he plane by feeding directions into the computer. If all the computers were to fail, the X-29A would self destruct in a mere two-tenths of a second...
...pace of the talks quickened last week, the two sides remained far apart. GM and Ford delivered initial proposals that made scant reference to either guaranteed job security or wage hikes, two key worker issues. Complained Stephen Yokich, the U.A.W. chief Ford bargainer: "We're not playing in the same ballpark." In response, the U.A.W. executive board declared both GM and Ford to be potential strike targets, holding open the option of later zeroing in on one firm if bargaining strategy so dictated. Pulling workers off the assembly lines at even a single company could prove costly; when...
...When the two Englishmen first started out, they assumed that the entire process must be carried out at breakneck speed: harvesting the egg the minute it is ripe and immediately adding the sperm. This was quite a challenge, given that the collaborators spent most of their time 155 miles apart, with Edwards teaching physiology at Cambridge and Steptoe practicing obstetrics in the northwestern mill town of Oldham. Sometimes, when one of Steptoe's patients was about to ovulate, the doctor would have to summon his partner by phone. Edwards would then jump into his car and charge down...