Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapidly. One U.S. Air Force expert described the likely scene: "As the fuselage opens and windows blow out, everything in the cabin, including passengers, even passengers in their seat belts, can be sucked out through the fuselage holes and the windows. Then comes the cold, say about -50°, instant extreme frostbite for anyone left alive...
...protégé's snapshots sensationalist. Author Caputo clearly sides with DelCorso and with an ethic that combines the redeeming social value of photography with the woozier aspects of Zen: "His intimacy with his camera had to be such that his use of it at the decisive instant was reflex action, an immediate union of the tangible and intangible, of hand and eye, mind and heart...
...company leaks. The problem is especially acute in the electronics industry. In California's Silicon Valley, job turnover averaged 24% last year. Observes one local executive recruiter: "There's a lot of greed out there. If you can get into the right situation, you're an instant millionaire...
...physiologists trained in kinesiology, the science of body movement. "The goal here is long, lean, tight, firm bodies that are powerful all over." At the no-frills Mike's Gym in Cambridge, Mass., Bodybuilder Vinny Greco, 31, scoffs at what he views as the promise of instant fitness promoted by flashier health clubs: "It's like fast food. It's a fast workout." Greco, a former runner-up in the Mr. New England contest, revels in the supermarket of muscle machines that he manages. "It looks like a gym out of Rocky, "he says...
...jarring note was the loud whine of a smoke-alarm klaxon, which briefly startled the crew. Because a fire or any outpouring of gas in Challenger's confined atmosphere would have lethal potential, the shuttle has seven fire extinguishers primed for instant use. However, a quick check showed that the alarm was set off by a sensor in the cargo area's aft bay No. 1 that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal...