Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, whose candidacy for the Board of Overseers stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy last spring, will attend his first Board meeting this weekend...
...hornet's nest was stirred up in Washington last fall when Fujitsu, the Japanese electronics giant, proposed buying 80% of ailing Fairchild Semiconductor. Key Reagan Administration officials had serious worries about the sale of the California-based chip producer, which was to take place for an estimated $225 million. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige went public with his opposition, hinting at national-security concerns and stressing the need to protect America's enfeebled semiconductor industry. Last week Fujitsu dropped its controversial merger plan even as U.S.-Japanese friction continued to rise over the issue...
...Buzz") Aldrin on the lunar surface. "This certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe. Without the continuing spectaculars in space, Nixon's demise because of Watergate would have produced even more of a national trauma than...
...postcards and golf courses seems to smile because it feeds with its head upside down. The adaptation suggests that evolution does not always take the easiest way up. Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey developed his investigative skills studying vespid insects, thus giving fuller meaning to the term stirring up a hornet's nest. The disappearance of .400 hitters in baseball, says Gould, may have less to do with equipment changes than with standardizing methods of play...
McDonnell Douglas explained that the Hornet was developed from a prototype designed by Northrop, the YF-17. In the process, the shape of the wing extensions that give the plane its high maneuverability was changed and a different engine was used. When prototypes were tested ten years ago, McDonnell Douglas did not notice that the modifications put additional stress on the tail assembly. The reason, according to the company, was partly "a real squeeze on development money." Despite the problems, the Navy expects to begin deploying the Hornet aboard the carrier U.S.S. Constellation in the fall. Nor has it changed...