Word: glides
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...Talk about cutthroat competition. Boston-based Gillette, which dominates the $700 million U.S. wet-shaver market with a 65% share, sued Swedish-owned rival Wilkinson Sword last week for claiming in a TV commercial that its new Ultra Glide razor provides the "smoothest, most comfortable shave known to man." No matter that manufacturers have freely boasted for years that their products are the biggest, the best or even the most aromatic. Gillette accused Atlanta- based Wilkinson, which controls 4% of the blade market, of false advertising...
Education was a high priority for his parents, both graduates of Howard University. His ability to glide effortlessly between different worlds was enhanced when he began taking the bus from Harlem to the Upper East Side to attend white schools. "When I was young," he says, "making white friends was no problem." At Middlebury he helped pay for his education by joining ROTC...
...escape system was designed to give the astronauts a chance to leave the orbiter quickly in the event of a "benign disaster" after the boosters had fallen away. In such a crisis, the crew would jettison the huge external fuel tank and stabilize the winged orbiter into a downward glide. Then, when the craft descended to an altitude of about 30,000 ft., the astronauts would set off explosive bolts, blowing a newly installed hatch off the ship, and extend the 12-ft. telescoping escape pole, which is positioned to guide them away from the orbiter's wing and tail...
...astronauts may be a bit warm on their 10,000-mile glide home; a cooling system problem has plagued most of the flight may still not be working...
...Suriname," someone answered, "northeast South America." Nesty, who trains at the University of Florida, was the first citizen of this former Dutch colony to win an Olympic medal. Biondi, leading at 98 meters, was caught awkwardly between strokes and, a relative newcomer to the fly, tried to glide to the wall. "I was afraid if I took another stroke, what would touch first would be my nose," he explained gloomily. But Nesty, who won the same race in the Pan American Games last year, belonged on the Olympic victory stand, and so did a surprising number of athletes from countries...