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...each other every second. That, of course, requires extremely precise synchronization. Yet even after repeated troubleshooting, the controllers in Houston found that Columbia's primary computers were a 25th of a second ahead of the backup. For human beings, a 25th of a second is a mere blink of the eye. But for the computers it was a yawning gap that put communications between the overeager main machines and their back-up badly "out of sync," turning their exchanges into electronic gibberish. Said an exasperated controller in Houston: "The back-up computer simply couldn't talk...
...heady prospects of steamrolling the economic package through Congress. When Senators and Congressmen asked Reagan's aides how much of his program the President really insists on getting, they replied solemnly, "He has said he will settle for 97%." Noted one aide: "They don't even blink at us." Even among Democrats on Capitol Hill there is no willingness to oppose the Reagan drive broadly, since they agree with its aims, have no comprehensive alternatives to offer and fear that opposition would be political suicide. So far, the main tactic of resistance has been to support budget...
...last minute, the red light barely had a chance to blink. Before you could say "Jeff Robinson, Falcone, Falcone," the Lauries' Robinson knocked a goal at 19:22, Falcone scored an empty-netter at 19:28, unassisted, and then tallied his fourth with just 19 seconds left in the game, knocking a Burke cross out of the air and into...
...make $1,000 or more a week. Business is up 20% at J.C. Penney's, and it would be more than double that if the store had more space. It hopes to move to the new shopping center now being planned, the town's first. Neon lights blink NO VACANCY outside motels charging $35 a night, cash in advance. "Tourists don't stand a chance," says Jennifer Barclay, manager of the Vagabond Motel. Exults Alan Graban, president of the First Wyoming Bank, who has seen his bank's assets double in five years: "This whole thing...
...forewarned--Hug A Light will not stay a blinking baby for long. Beneath the garish fur beats a heart eveready for...well, let the box explain. "Give me a squeeze about 2" below my blinking light and I'll show you how good it feels to have a birthday hug (I blink faster when I get excited and happy...