Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoisting pints than hoisting sails, the Australians are up at 5:50 each morning for an hour of calisthenics and road work. "The whole thing has become deadly, deadly, deadly serious," says Australia II Executive Director Warren Jones. "We train like commandos." The eleven-man crew enjoys impressive backup support. As Australia II was maneuvering before the start of a race last week, its carbon fiber boom buckled, making a forfeit seem probable. But its tender came alongside, and within ten minutes a $9,000 aluminum boom was in place and the yacht was ready with time to spare...
Like all commercial jets, the 767 is designed to glide without power for a distance at least 16 times its altitude. In the case of Air Canada Flight 143, that meant more than 100 miles. As soon as the second engine went out, an elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly...
...estimated that a dozen Senators would take their voting cue from Glenn. Thus enormous pressure was applied to get him to change his mind. Through top aides like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Carter sent along secret information that backup monitoring would soon be ready. Prominent Senators leaned hard on him. Glenn would not budge. His position: as soon as adequate verification was reinstated, he would vote for the treaty. The President, frustrated at what he considered Glenn's tunnel vision, telephoned him at home early one morning to complain further. Carter afterward told his staff he had never...
...bill is chafing the sometimes difficult relationship between the neighboring countries. Historically, the lax border enforcement has worked to the advantage of both. The U.S. has used Mexico as a backup labor source, and Mexico has counted on the annual flow of its natives as a "safety valve" for relieving the pressure of its high unemployment. Although the Mexican government of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado has avoided taking a public position, Mexican leaders complain bitterly in private that the U.S. is making a unilateral decision about a problem the countries share and is "criminalizing" the immigrants...
...stresses of normal life by beginning the day strapped into Wallis and his rowing machine. Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin relies on "a long, long, long walk. Daily." For the Washington Bureau's Renie Schapiro, reducing stress means a jog through Rock Creek Park or a swim. "For backup," she says, "there is always my foot massager and my Pachelbel record...