Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...
...fact, there is a good chance the new Congress will crack from the intense pressure it will be under. Holding a hard line on spending cuts against dozens of clamoring interests could be an impossible task. Unless, that is, there emerges enough vocal and visible pressure for fiscal responsibility to counteract the pressure to spend...
...Reagan's California crony and chief of staff, as Attorney General in 1985. After winning a bruising confirmation fight in which his ethical standards were questioned, Meese quickly steered all the resources of the department toward achieving the Reagan Administration's political program: to roll back civil rights gains, crack down on criminal defendants and the rights, they had been awarded by the courts, attack pornographers, curb abortion rights, and slow down enforcement of environmental laws. That agenda, with some refinements, remained in place through the administrations of Meese's successors, Dick Thornburgh and William Barr...
...Indeed, his versatility makes him one of the hottest commodities in sports television--he can handle hockey, baseball, college basketball, and even football (anybody else out there see the Independence Bowl?) in a pinch, and handle them well. I just wanted to ask him about his famous voice-crack as he called "SAFE!" when Sid Bream gave the Atlanta Braves the National League Pennant earlier this year--in his words, "I about went through the roof on that...
...describe fragments of DNA arranged in the proper order as they would appear on the chromosomes. So far, researchers have identified a few genetic markers on each fragment: for example, the gene for Huntington's disease on a fragment of chromosome 4. In a later phase, they hope to crack the code of each gene -- a code that is written in chemical constituents called base pairs. The great challenge is the sheer size of the task. The human genome contains 3.5 billion base pairs...