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Meanwhile, there were signs that Mitterrand was ending his honeymoon with the French electorate and that the bloom on the Socialist rose was beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing...
...fact, of course, no one even remembers what sort of time one has on summer vacation, because the mind is not itself. All we ever have are the vaguest recollections, preserved for a brief time in their rich excitement before they fade like...
Still, the crisis-generated "highs" of the substitute controllers will surely start to fade. The FAA's Moss contends that controllers "perform best under stress -they thrive on it." He cites studies showing that collisions in the air occur mainly when traffic is relatively light and when "the stress is off air controllers, and they are not paying attention." Some of the working controllers, who were still putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself...
...trained to whip out precisely 4 oz. per small scoop, 5½ oz. for a medium scoop and 7 oz. for a large. But what ends up happening, she notes, is that customers who talk to the scoopers get more ice cream. She and her colleagues fight brain-fade by sizing up customers ("definitely a Swiss orange-chip person") the way soda jerks used to do. "The other day a guy came in and ordered a frappe with vanilla and mocha-chip ice cream, vanilla syrup, marshmallow sauce, hot butterscotch and an egg. That was weird." Her word frappe here...
...chosen, and competitive bidding is still open, the Army does not have a price tag on its initial order of 220,000 The Pentagon will replace its 418,000 aging .45s and 136,000 surviving .38s over the next ten years. But the pistols, unlike old soldiers, will not fade away; they will be stored, sold overseas or donated to, well, marksmanship clubs...