Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence, consider the Kronos concert at Manhattan's Alice Tully Hall last month. It was a multimedia program, arranged by the avant-garde Italian stage designer Alessandro Moruzzi, titled "Assembly Required." Dressed in unisex costumes of jet-black shirts and slacks, the four musicians walked onto a stage jumbled with speakers, tape equipment and an assortment of lights and mechanical gears. Before each of the scheduled four works, played without intermission, the Kronos members, in stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered...
...naval battles between the two types have gone on for years, as sailboats topple in the wakes of motorboats. But this year the most visible -- and audible -- combatant promises to be one of the smallest and peskiest of them all: the "personal watercraft," better known by Kawasaki's trademark Jet Skis. "Everyone I know has had at least one close call," says board sailor Barbara Glunn in Miami. "And it usually happened when one guy tried to beat the antics of another...
...laws and negative publicity have prompted the watercraft industry to expand its safety campaign. Industry spokesmen maintain that the machines are safe but that they are too often used irresponsibly. "Many people who are buying personal watercraft are buying their first boat," says Catherine Martin, spokeswoman for the International Jet Ski Boating Association. "They'll break some of the laws that other boaters are aware of without even knowing that they're alienating anybody...
...leadership problems of its own. Washington has been sending out conflicting signals because trade policy is shaped and shared by several Government departments -- including State, Defense and Commerce -- that are often at odds. The dispute about whether to scrap the agreement for joint U.S.-Japan production of the FSX jet fighter, in which the Defense and Commerce departments were squaring off before President Bush decided to go through with the deal, annoyed the Japanese because their trustworthiness was so openly debated...
...conditions of Follini's underground life were extreme, but people's biological clocks can also be disrupted by the demands of everyday life. Jetting across time zones, working twelve-hour days or irregular shifts and even sleeping late can disturb biological rhythms and impair efficiency and judgment. Government officials and business leaders are routinely advised to recover from jet lag before starting negotiations...