Word: glenn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BEST REASON TO DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR PURCHASE BEFORE LEAVING BARNES & NOBLE Unfit for Command, an attack on Kerry's Vietnam service by John E. O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, and Unfit Commander, an anti-Bush book by Glenn W. Smith...
...could not. Cooper's sole remaining inverter was needed to power cabin-cooling gear on re-entry. Now Cooper would have no automatic aids at all in bringing his capsule down ... It was up to Cooper?with some dramatic help from the calm, crisp voice of [ground liaison] John Glenn ... Cooper and Glenn ran swiftly, surely down a check list of the operations Cooper must perform for re-entry. Cooper skillfully steadied his craft by a manual control stick ... Like a rifleman with a cross-hair sight, he lined up a horizontal mark on his window with the horizon...
...agency gets little public recognition, and that's just fine. It sticks to the science and leaves product development and marketing--and the glory--to others. Glenn invented some nonfood uses for wheat starch, including a biodegradable version of Styrofoam food containers. His work is being incorporated in various products at EarthShell Corp., a disposable-food-packaging company based in Santa Barbara, Calif. But when commercial production of the wheat-based plates and bowls begins next year, consumers will see only EarthShell's name on the label. There will be no reference to ARS. "We don't want the USDA...
...result, the agency's 2,500 scientists tend to toil in anonymity, despite their contribution to popular commercial culture. "I'm constantly amazed how few people know we exist," says Glenn. "When I told someone recently that I work for the USDA, she said, 'Oh, so you're a meat inspector...
...room-size installations that became more common in the '70s and after. The danger of so vast an expansion, of course, was that MOMA would itself become economy size, an alienating blimp hangar. "The most cherished dimension of the old museum was its sense of intimacy," says Glenn Lowry, MOMA's director. "When we began laying out the new building, we had the option of 20,000 to 30,000 more square feet than we settled on. We didn't want to become a museum that you couldn't visit comfortably in two or three hours...