Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games came as he vacationed in the French Alps with his family in 1973. Suffering from a sprained ankle, he discovered a new game called "Pong" in the hotel bar, and was mesmerized by it. "Who or what controlled my opponent's movements? What were the rules governing the flight of that square shuttlecock?" The reader can really feel how important finding a niche was to him through the simple yet emotional description of this discovery...
...NASA has pointed out, there were 17 million people aged 65 years or older in the U.S. in 1963, just one year after Glenn made his historic flight. Today, there are twice as many...
...will be a while, researchers say, before we know for sure. It may even be a while before the data from the flight is released to the general public. NASA is still grappling with privacy issues, including whether they should release John Glenn and other astronauts' medical information...
Interactive Flight Technologies, a financially troubled company with a new board and chairman (former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was once a director), has said it wants out of the in-flight-entertainment business, a desire repeated at the company's annual meeting a day after Swissair's announcement. Company executives say the airlines want cheaper, simpler systems, and the market has been depressed because U.S. regulations bar gambling on flights that take off or land in the U.S. That means no passengers on Swissair 111, which left from New York City's Kennedy airport, were swiping their credit cards...
...that John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International...