Word: blipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measures amounted to little more than a blip on the gargantuan volume of annual U.S.-Japanese trade, which totaled $112 billion last year. But the slap at Tokyo was also a powerful diplomatic message. For the first time, longstanding American grievances over the trade practices of its second largest trading partner (after Canada) had resulted in a sharp and pointed U.S. economic response. Said a senior Administration official: "This will hopefully send a signal to all our trading partners that the free ride is over." As Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige put it to TIME, "You can't rely on words...
...said Tom Doyle, an assistant air-traffic manager at the main airport. As for the Mooney, Doyle said, "I don't know where that aircraft was." Investigators said the Mooney may have been "squawking" with a transponder -- a device that amplifies its radar reflection -- since printouts indicate its blip may have appeared on one radar screen. If so, why had the controller not warned the commuter pilot? A possible explanation: the Mooney was not transmitting information on its altitude, and thus the danger was not apparent...
Late last year, as he carefully navigated through the Iran uproar, the Vice President showed an uncharacteristic little blip of daring. His four-week silence after the scandal surfaced had drawn considerable sneering. Even Nancy Reagan privately began running him down. She told friends that Bush's lack of public support for her husband was inexcusable, a remarkable reaction considering the Vice President's long compliant service. Bush and his wife have tirelessly courted the Reagans, routinely dispatching approving notes after public appearances by the President or his wife. Reagan himself held no such dark feelings about Bush and told...
...grew by 97 (to 157). The FAA offers another explanation for the rising number of near midairs: its reporting system has improved. In 1983 the FAA began installing what controllers and pilots call a "snitch" alarm system. Aircraft now move across a controller's green radar screen as a blip of light in the middle of a round white "halo" or "doughnut," representing an area that has a diameter of five miles. The aim of the controllers is to "keep green" between the doughnuts. Whenever two circles begin to intersect, indicating that two planes have violated the horizontal separation standard...
Ordinarily, the arrival in Pyongyang of Mongolian President Jambyn Batmonh would scarcely register a blip on the radar screens of international diplomacy. But when Batmonh stepped off his jetliner in North Korea's capital last week, television footage of the welcoming ceremony was almost immediately flashed to eagerly awaiting networks and wire services around the world. Reason: the Premier was greeted by a man whose sudden and violent death had been widely rumored and, in some cases, reported as confirmed fact for two days. Yet there he was, Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader," still paunchy and apparently hale...