Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statue originally rested in the "Delta" in front of Memorial hall, but French did not like the location and requested that it be moved to its present location, which was carried out 60 years ago in April, 1924. The current issue of Harvard Magazine shows a picture of the move in progress...
...Delta used to be the site of "turkey shooting"--a rather arcane pastime involving actual shooting of the fowl--and other popular games...
...authors did not rank their 100 best companies, but they did choose a Top Ten. In alphabetical order, they are Bell Laboratories, Trammell Crow, Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Northwestern Mutual Life, Pitney Bowes and Time...
Certain characteristics are common to most of the 100 companies. They tend to promote from within rather than hire outsiders. They try not to lay off employees in hard times. Above all, they make workers feel like part of a family. Nowhere is family spirit stronger than at Delta, which has not laid off anyone for nearly 40 years. In 1982 a retiring Delta pilot took out a full-page ad in both the Atlanta Constitution and the Journal (cost: about $6,400) to declare, "It has been my privilege to work for the finest group of human beings that...
...first time, the delta-winged spacecraft will climb directly into orbit with only one intermediate firing by its orbital maneuvering engines. A steeper ascent, made possible by improvements in engine thrust, will save fuel, which may be needed for the rendezvous maneuvers with Solar Max. Once it is 245 miles high, the shuttle will use its remote-controlled mechanical arm for another first: the deployment of a 30-ft.-long cylindrical package, called the long-duration exposure facility (LDEF), which contains 57 separate scientific experiments contributed by nearly 200 scientists in nine countries. LDEF will be left in orbit...