Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeat. Reporters were doomed to repeat as gospel political orthodoxies that were soon outpaced by events. Try these on for nostalgia's sake. A sitting Governor like Dukakis can never be nominated because he would be unable to devote enough time to contest Iowa. The Bush campaign is a balloon kept aloft by a thin membrane of inevitability, so the prick of a single bad defeat will send it sputtering to earth. And that fanciful dream of reporters everywhere: with so many candidates in both parties, at least one of the races is certain...
...more difficult to edit than its conversational tone would suggest. "Coming up with story ideas is still a stretch," she remarks, sitting in her uncluttered pink office overlooking Manhattan's Times Square. After only three issues, Sassy already has a circulation of 280,000, a figure Yates predicts will balloon to 1 million over the next five years. That would put Sassy in the same league as its chief competitors, Seventeen (circ. 1.86 million) and Teen (circ. 1.19 million), and make it much more successful than Ms. has ever been. Which prompts an obvious question: Will Sassy readers grow...
...balloon will be one of six such vehicles observing the supernova, Grindlay says, adding that each balloon flight takes between one and two days...
...Harvard balloon team includes Harvard graduate student Corbin Covault, a Brazilian graduate student doing thesis research at Harvard, visiting grad student Joao Braga and a group of three to four Smithsonian engineers. who designed and built the telescope and gondola, and Grindlay...
Pressurizing an aircraft for high-altitude flight and then depressurizing it for a landing is analogous to inflating and deflating a balloon. Eventually, the fuselage of the plane, like the surface of the balloon, is apt to give way. The Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 was what aviation professionals call a "high-time" aircraft -- one nearing the end of its operational life -- and had undergone far more pressurization cycles than Far Eastern...