Word: jetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't until after the New Orleans fund-raising dinner that night, as the entourage boarded a private jet for Roanoke, Va., that some advisers began to feel queasy. The logical follow-up question, they realized, would be, "What about during your father's Administration?" It was slowly dawning on them that the hole was just getting deeper. And that was even before checking the Dallas paper's website upon landing and seeing the nightmare headline: BUSH SAYS HE HASN'T USED DRUGS IN LAST SEVEN YEARS...
...both want to stop the world becoming a playground for the U.S. But centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility tend to make such alliances between them shortlived." Moscow and Beijing are expected to conclude a deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number of SU-30 jet fighters and other military hardware to China. Although border disputes had fueled their feud during the 1960s, both countries also now share an interest in resolving those and developing a common approach to Islamic secessionist challenges. Most important, though, Moscow and Beijing share an intense resentment at being relegated...
...Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets." Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that Cassini, having already flown more than a billion miles, is in excellent shape. All systems are operating well, and the craft is on course for a flyby of home...
...week's end, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that Cassini, having already flown more than a billion miles, was in excellent shape. All systems were operating well, and the craft was on course for a flyby of home...
...hours during its roundabout nine-month, 500-million-mile journey to Braille, the little craft was accelerated by a futuristic ion-propulsion engine that provided gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...