Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large airliners, passengers have another reason to be uneasy. After studying 30 cockpit flight-crew members, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, discovered that on long high-altitude flights, the cockpit crew is sometimes asleep. The pilots, copilots and navigators he interviewed admitted that they have either nodded off on the job or had to struggle not to do so an average of 16 times a month. This usually happens sometime between 4 and 5 in the morning. In other research, Moore-Ede discovered an incident in which a transcontinental flight missed its Los Angeles...
...BayBanks installs automatic teller machines in the pillars of Memorial Church. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter Gomes delivers a six-hour address, "Automatic Teller Machines and Our Puritan Tradition." The address makes no sense, but the audience is asleep and fails to notice...
Shagged out after my productive afternoon, I plopped onto the couch and proceeded to fall asleep while watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. After all, I had a paper to write, and I didn't want to be tired later...
...quip about Martin Luther King and his joke about bombing the Russians. I could forget that this is the man who promised to balance our budget. I could still rally behind him, even though he tried to cut my college aid, broke Salt II and fell asleep during cabinet meetings...
...John Poindexter. Admiral Poindexter had gotten some wind of this earlier, but he didn't pursue it. He is a fine naval officer. In keeping with that tradition, even if you are asleep in your bunk when your ship runs aground, you take the responsibility. He took the responsibility...