Word: destructibility
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...computers do the work for the pilot, making 40 adjustments a second to the wings and canards to keep the plane from ripping apart. In effect, the pilot guides he plane by feeding directions into the computer. If all the computers were to fail, the X-29A would self destruct in a mere two-tenths of a second...
...about inflation than they are about the threat that a rapid recovery will cause a collision between the borrowing needs of business to finance rising output and the demands of Government for borrowing to cover deficits. This would force up interest rates enough to make the U.S. recovery self-destruct-to say nothing of the baneful effects of high American interest rates, and the concomitant strength of the U.S. dollar, on foreign economies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The speed of the recovery indicated by the latest unemployment figures, says Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist of Chase Econometrics, "puts pressure on the financial...
...more exciting than those two. Supposedly, Joe Restic has cooked up a play that will send ten eligible receivers downfield at once and then drop Ron Cuccia from the Goodyear Blimp. Princeton, on the other hand, has the worst defense this side of Chuck Wepner, including a self-destruct secondary that has allowed over 150 points in five games. A whole team of Bayonne Bleeders living an hour south of Bayonne...
...wasn't fair that a self-destruct ballclub like Cornell, with enough problems of its own, should have to face Cuccia on a good day. The Big Red simply had no idea how to stop the elusive quarterback, who skittered for six first downs and passed for another...
Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them...