Word: glides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toyota showed several new models, including the SV-3, its first sports car since the 2000 GT in 1967. The company's FX1 car has glassed-in roof pillars and windshield wipers hidden under a sliding shutter. The doors tilt and glide out. It also has a voice-command system similar to Nissan's. At low speeds, half the engine shuts down to conserve fuel. Toyota was also showing off the TAC3, a sporty, four-wheel-drive car in which the driver sits in the middle, with passengers behind...
...diagnosing the ills of an entire marketplace. While being unable to read the underlying emotions of the person with whom they ear, sleep, and talk on a regular basis. A man afflicted with an intellect which comes to life only for academic or professional audiences, while personal subtleties glide past, is telling women that his real concern lies in being seen, understood, and accepted--not in seeing, understanding, and accepting. A woman who enjoys one-way relationships and basking in the rays of her partner's achievements has little difficulty finding someone, compared to the woman who wants...
...next year or so, however, the recovery looks solid. TIME'S economists predicted that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, would slow from its torrid 9.2% annual rate of the second quarter but still glide along at a healthy 4.4% pace in 1984. The unemployment rate is expected to drift downward from its current 9.5% level to 8.2% by the end of next year...
Like all commercial jets, the 767 is designed to glide without power for a distance at least 16 times its altitude. In the case of Air Canada Flight 143, that meant more than 100 miles. As soon as the second engine went out, an elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly...
...Friday morning, after six days in space and 95½ orbits of the earth, if the schedule holds and winds and weather are fair, Challenger will end its flight. Crippen and his copilot, Rick Hauck, 42, will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience...