Word: engineeering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The first big glitch occurred on July 12, when a computer detected contamination in Challenger's hydrogen fuel and aborted the launch 3 sec. before takeoff. The 112-ton spacecraft blasted off 17 days later, but 5 min. 15 sec. into the flight, a monitoring device reported that one of...
Nor does the author seem to be. A bulldozer arrives, and the old well is excavated. A long-buried murder that comes to light cuts to the heart of the family, or should. The discovery provokes another death. Yet the survivors behave more or less as they would have done...
Throughout 1983 and '84, the U.S. was the churning locomotive of the world economy. But when that engine of growth sputtered and slowed this year, many of the trading partners it was pulling along practically lurched off the track. The jolt was particularly rough on the export-driven economies of...
For the Pacific Community as a whole, the lesson of 1985 is that too much reliance on the U.S. market is risky. "The U.S. cannot continue to be the only engine of growth in the world economy," said Krause. The economists agreed that the Asian nations will have to develop...
(4 of 8) Canberra's newish national museum has an eclectic permanent collection, mixing exhibits that tell bits of the story so far. There are galleries devoted to indigenous peoples, British settlement, immigration, and 1960s suburbia - where you will find a display recreating the kitchen-and-backyard idyll that nurtured...