Word: controll
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main reasons: student autonomy and student control. On the one hand, students can choose not to pay the council fee, and they can, through exercise of that option, voice any discontent they may feel about the way those funds are distributed. On the other hand, with the freedom to opt out of paying the fee at all comes the freedom of the student body, through its elected representatives, to control how the funds are to be spent. Several of the other processes I have mentioned include significant student input, but ultimately are under institutional control and oversight...
...EgyptAir Flight 990 is cruising uneventfully at 33,000 ft. on its normal heading from New York City northeast across the Atlantic toward Cairo. At that moment, two distinct clicks of a button on the control yoke disconnect the autopilot guiding the plane. Eight seconds later, the control yoke is pushed forward, tipping the tail up, pitching the nose down, and the aircraft tilts into a precipitous but controlled dive. Fourteen seconds later, the aircraft reaches 90% of the speed of sound and zero gravity--weightlessness--as it plummets through the night...
Junior center Steve Moore gained control of the puck in the offensive zone on a turnover with nothing separating him and B.U. goaltender Rick DiPietro. Forced to break up the play himself, DiPietro lost his stick in the scuffle...
Harvard found its legs in the final period and tried to take control of the game, holding B.U. to only two shots on net in the third while taking eight...
...percent on domestic routes. Customers aren't likely to be sympathetic to the airlines' cries over rising fuel costs, which is the primary reason cited by Delta and American for their fare increases - nor should they necessarily believe it. "This is the time of year when airlines have enormous control over pricing," says TIME business writer Bernard Baumohl. "Demand is high, and people are willing to pay to get where they want to go. So every seat is filled, no matter what the price...