Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to within a whisker of 8000 has blown through the last remaining bounds of sanity. No sweat, say some Wall Street swamis. The market has a permanent visa to the ether. But don't believe it. Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff while chasing the Roadrunner, the market is churning its legs furiously, but there's nothing beneath it. When investors finally look down...
...looks safe, will the car be allowed to push off. Since even signals traveling at the speed of light take 11 minutes to cover the 119 million miles between Earth and Mars, it's impossible for controllers to stop Sojourner from running into an obstacle or over a cliff. The car thus moves excruciatingly slowly--just 2 ft. per minute--reducing the likelihood that it will stumble into trouble. Built-in gyroscopes serve as a sort of on-board vestibular system, helping the rover feel for bumps and potholes; a tracery of five laser beams helps it feel for obstructions...
Mann channeled these earlier minor eruptions into great cleansing explosions. In The Naked Spur, Stewart is a bounty hunter who is shot, rolled down a rocky cliff, betrayed by partners, tortured by fever into screaming delirium. He uses the spur of the title to dig handholds up a sheer cliff, then embeds it in the face of his prisoner (Robert Ryan). Some fans of Stewart the gentle child-man do not like to see him become a snarling avenger. But that is what happens when the sense of one's own virtue is affronted. American innocence fairly begs...
...shifted again: drag a few hundred dollars through state-police headquarters in Little Rock, it seems, and there's no telling what the troopers will say. The sources of the American Spectator's January 1994 "Troopergate" piece, who were operating under the tutelage of a Clinton hater named Cliff Jackson, hoped the expose--which they began working on soon after Clinton won the presidential nomination--would lead to a $2.5 million book advance. (According to the New Yorker, Jackson and a trooper, Danny Ferguson, parted company after Ferguson refused to let his name be used because Jackson wouldn't promise...
...going will be slow. Commands from Cooper's computer will take 11 minutes to travel from Pasadena to Mars; it will take another 11 minutes for the rover to acknowledge that it has received the instruction. To prevent Sojourner from blundering into a chasm or over a cliff, engineers designed it to move no faster than 1.3 ft. per minute. Onboard gyroscopes and lasers will help it feel for dangers the camera might have missed. If Sojourner spots an obstacle, it will try to avoid it or simply stop. "We'll give it a point...