Word: gemini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was younger, Manny Pearlman planned to have his own investment firm. Now, at the advanced age of 28, he has one: Manhattan's Gemini Partners. And, as the newest and perhaps youngest player in the takeover game, he could have more companies in his pocket, soon. Last week Pearlman, acting on behalf of a group of investors, launched his first tender offer, a bid worth $240 million for Arkansas Best Corp. (1987 revenues: $732 million), a firm engaged in trucking as well as furniture and tire manufacturing...
...ground. Built into the ceiling is an elaborate electronic map of the cosmos, a 50th-birthday gift to Khashoggi, who is fascinated by astronomy. One by one, against a dark background, the outline of the constellations lights up, the tiny stars winking against the blankness. Aquarius . . . Cancer . . . Gemini . . . Then there is Leo, Khashoggi's birth sign, and as the constellation brightens, a small image of the round-faced, mustachioed Saudi Arabian arms merchant and businessman flashes...
...when companies were forced to search for new petroleum reserves beneath the sea. Most are self-propelled. They are connected to the mother ship by a cable, through which they receive electricity and commands from their human pilot and transmit pictures and data. It was an advanced ROV, the Gemini, that played a key role in the recovery of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger. Designed to operate at depths as great as 5,000 ft., the 7,000-lb. ungainly craft uses hydraulic thrusters to maneuver like an underwater helicopter. It has two mechanical arms and is loaded with...
...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 $50 to $25, and revamped its advertising. The company remains convinced that once customers try ZapMail, they will wonder how they ever...
...launched from earth. There is also fragmentary junk, resulting from mid-space collisions between spacecraft and meteorites. Astronauts have dumped sewage, food containers and spent oxygen cylinders overboard. On rare occasions, space walkers have accidentally dropped objects in space. Astronaut Ed White lost a shiny white glove during the Gemini 4 flight in 1965. George ("Pinky") Nelson fumbled away two tiny screws while repairing the Solar Maximum Mission satellite during the shuttle flight last month...