Word: launchful
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...What the companies do have in common is a willingness to take risks, probably risks with long odds in order to launch new products. These products may be failures, but they are well enough researched and designed that they have a good chance of keeping IBM and Google ahead of the competition even if that does not immediately involve significant new revenue...
...second concerned payments to prevent firms from designing hardware around AMD chips: Intel paid PC makers to delay or scrap the launch of new computers containing their rival's products. "Intel limited consumer choice and stifled innovation by preventing innovative products for which there was a consumer demand from reaching end customers," the Commission said...
...dangerous as it can be to fly the shuttles, the agency has done a commendable job of getting the debris problem under control since the loss of Columbia. Cameras on the underside of the ship send back live streaming videos throughout the launch phase, allowing controllers to monitor any foam or other material that is shed en route. Analysis of Atlantis' tapes show a relatively small debris hit at the 106-sec. mark in the ascent - at precisely the moment skin sensors also detected a strike in the area in which the dings have been spotted. That area, at about...
...current Houses from the inside rather than build entirely new ones--which is convenient in retrospect, they wouldn't have been able to pay for shuttle service to and from those new Houses anyway. But when this "House renewal" project will emerge is unclear. First the plan was to launch the renewal as early as 2011. Then the promise changed to "as early as 2012." In an interview on Monday, Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith emphasized the uncertainty embedded in that promise...
...outstripping all the combined spending of countries in NATO, excluding the U.S. Apart from China, the top Asian spenders include Japan and South Korea, nations that over the past 40 years relied on American military support to deter the communist states to their west. Now, Japan is due to launch its largest ship since World War II, a "Hyuga" class helicopter carrier - Japan's pacifist constitution forbids the use of carriers with more offensive aircraft - that is designed chiefly for anti-submarine warfare. Seoul paraded a similar 14,000 ton vessel at Qingdao...