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...earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke temporary "holes" in the ionosphere, allowing radio astronomers based around the world to aim their telescopes through the gaps. Indeed, the experiments hummed along so well that NASA decided to extend the mission an extra...
Abdul-Jabbar & Co. offers basic hotel management with one unusual touch. Some rooms are customized to accommodate exceptionally tall guests. There are 12-ft.-high doors, 15-ft. ceilings and extra-long beds. Says Thomas Collins, the group's financial adviser: "One of the worst things that happens is when the guys travel and the beds are too short or they can't get in the shower." SURVEYS Money...
...write one in 20 hours with assistance and 30 hours without assistance." The perpetrators are frequently disaffected engineers and computer technicians. Says Security Consultant Sanford Sherizen of Natick, Mass.: "A lot of people grew up in data processing, spent years holding computers together with Scotch tape, putting in extra hours, and in recent years of the industry's growth they don't feel they have got an adequate reward...
Such loyalty is highly lucrative. Bartosh reports that regular-season gate receipts plus the revenue from the state playoffs netted the school about $320,000. It costs $92,000 to run the entire football program, seventh through twelfth grade. The extra money pays for the school's other sports, known to some in these parts as "the lesser sports...
...buyers declined to pay $225 for the optional safety device, and by the end of 1976 they had disappeared from auto showrooms. Now the Ford Motor Co. is trying an American air-bag comeback. Last week the carmaker said it will carry driver-side air bags as an $815 extra on four-door models of the 1986 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz...