Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Up in the cockpit, crew members had other things on their minds. "The five of us were trying everything to steady the plane," said Pilot Ming Yuan Ho, 55. Cruising at around 41,000 feet about 350 miles northwest of San Francisco, the Boeing 747 SP suddenly lost full power...
Even in producing its separate chambers, Bomby did nothing extraordinary. It descended from a family of ground beetles that have single internal chambers and merely added the second compartment by subdividing the first. Eisner also offers strong evidence, in the form of "living fossils," that the bombardier did indeed evolve...
Books, movies and television have long provided a glamorous gloss for the image of the foreign correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge'...
BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might...
I have never been pushed off a tall building. But if I ever do. I'm sure I will feel a lot like I did at that moment. Amy had come to get the bursar's cards from the glove compartment.