Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not fly. Its stubby wings angle forward, putting them under immense stress. Indeed, it is so unstable that no pilot can react fast enough to keep it from dropping out of the sky. Yet the X-29A flew precisely as planned last Friday in its first test flight from California's Edwards Air Force Base. Pilot Chuck Sewell kept the X-29A aloft at 15,000 ft. for nearly an hour, maintaining a relatively slow speed of 270 m.p.h. His secret: three built-in computers checked all flight-control surfaces 40 times a second, automatically making adjustments...
Even before Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent in the Kremlin, touched down last Saturday at London's Heathrow Airport, British officials were busy trying to downplay the importance of his eight-day official visit. The British feared that the trip would focus too much Western attention on his status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret...
...executives who knew little about air freight. With a $35 million annual ad budget, Federal paid for a series of catchy commercials featuring a cold-eyed boss who talked like a record played at triple speed. As the rivalry has heated up, so has the competitive tone of the fast-delivery advertising. Purolator calls Federal the "inflexible express" and Airborne taunts, "Federal Express does better advertising, so Airborne has to give you better service." Federal retorts, "Why fool around with anyone else...
Since even overnight delivery may not be fast enough for a country hooked on speed, Federal Express has now developed ZapMail. To send ZapMail, a customer summons a Federal courier to pick up documents, which are then sent by facsimile transmission to another Federal Express office. There a laser printer spews out copies that are hand delivered. Elapsed time: two hours. Under development for five years with the code name Gemini Project, the $100 million electronic-mail venture got off to a slow start in July. Federal cut the price of sending 20 pages of information in half, from...
Well, the '60s are prehistory now, and nothing ages as fast as futurism. So it seems anachronistic for David Lynch, the gifted eccentric whose only previous features were the $20,000 Eraserhead and the $5 million The Elephant Man, to spend some $50 million (not another one!) bringing Herbert's mammoth fantasia to the screen. And more than a little confusing to those mortals who have not memorized the book. For Herbert devised not just a teeming universe but the rudiments of several new languages, and Lynch works hard to squeeze the novel's richness and oddness...