Word: haring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the moon in 1969, 1971 and 1972; the unmanned landing on Mars in 1976; and Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to leave the solar system, in 1972. But by 1975, the American commitment to space travel had begun to flag. In the tortoise-and-hare space competition, the methodical Soviets crept doggedly ahead, depending on incremental improvements in tried-and-true technologies, rather than the explosive leaps that have characterized American scientific and engineering advances in space...
...most maddening side effect of deregulation has probably been the lengthy delays that cropped up this summer at major U.S. airports. With carriers bunching their flights during the most attractive hours, an airport like Chicago-O'Hare found itself facing 42 departures between 7 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., but with a capability to handle only 23. Jetliners had to wait and wait before taking off, forcing many passengers to miss connections and appointments. Andrew Edson, a Manhattan public relations consultant, recently spent two hours on the ground in an Atlanta-bound jet at New York...
...ease congestion, the Federal Aviation Administration last month prodded 100 airlines into an unprecedented agreement to spread out 1,300 rush-hour flights at the six most crowded U.S. airports. These are Chicago-O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartsfield, Denver's Stapleton and the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse...
...Manson, 49, mass murderer serving a life sentence for the killings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; from second- and third-degree burns of his hands, scalp and face, after he was splashed with paint thinner and set ablaze by a fellow inmate and murderer, Jan Holmstrom, a Hare Krishna devotee who said that Manson complained about his continual chanting; in the California Medical Facility infirmary; in Vacaville, Calif...
Koivemaki lauded the Hare process, which is also used by the Cambridge City Council, saying, "the beauty of the system is that when the ballots are counted, they tend to reflect minority and majority positions to the extent which they are represented in the electorate at large...