Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that instant, the spacecraft's No. 1 computer, responsible for directing the orbiter's navigational and guidance systems, as well as general housekeeping duties, "crashed," or shut down. To the relief of Houston controllers, the No. 2 computer promptly took over. Indeed, under NASA's suspenders-and-belt philosophy, the orbiter is equipped with four electronically linked computers, plus an independently operating backup. Any one of these machines can take charge of the shuttle. About four minutes later, however, after the thrusters fired again to slow the ship, the second computer also stopped...
...elite of American reporters, the Washington press corps. Indeed, much of the journalistic behavior that the public says it finds objectionable is seen chiefly in telecasts from Washington: rudeness to high officials, prosecutorial shouting of questions at press conferences, overt attempts to trap an interview subject with trick questions, "instant analysis" of speeches that viewers have just seen for themselves. Another blow to the image of all journalists was struck in Washington last Friday when White House Spokesman Larry Speakes announced that he had trapped two reporters purloining internal White House memos. To prove that some writers on the White...
...reason for having a strong military [according to the right] was ultimately to protect our women..."After all." [Congressman John] Schmidt argued never for a moment doubting that the FRA would mean instant conscription of American women into combat duty...
...Greek freighter Antigoni was steaming through the Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo...
Succeeding Devaney in 1973 was not an instant pleasure for Osborne, who has a Ph.D. in educational psychology, the minimum degree of learning required for understanding college football fans. Maintaining a successful football program is less romantic work than constructing one, though no less hazardous. It took ten years, but now Devaney and Osborne each own 100 victories and are coming to be regarded as equal treasures. "I'm just glad to have survived," Osborne says. "We had some 9-3 seasons that were looked at around here as pretty average." It took him a considerable while to beat...