Word: mid-air
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...references to planes and crashes are so constant as to be unintentionally amusing. From the film's beginning, Ritchie has nightmares in which he witnesses a mid-air collision between two planes. He takes as his first stage name "Richie Valenzuela and his Flying Guitar...
...Slezak sprinted back, lunged, and grabbed the ball in mid-air on the warning track...
...There was a tale about the archipelago called Nova Zembla, which was discovered in the 16th century, high in the Arctic Circle. A ship's crew was stranded there, frozen in. The air was so cold, the story said, that when the sailors spoke, their words crystallized in mid-air and remained there. Presently a thaw arrived, and all the words, warmed up, came cascading down in a tremendous, unintelligible din. The owner of an answering machine knows that there may come a moment when the machine, for all its customary obedience, will disgorge, in a weird, surreal monologue...
...shortage of personnel and the growth of new carriers have raised concerns about airline safety. "The margin of safety is growing thin," warns Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association. Fears were heightened this past summer by a spate of mid-air near collisions. In August, for example, a private aircraft came within 100 feet of a Delta jet carrying 146 people shortly after the larger plane left Washington. Nonetheless, most experts contend that U.S. skies remain remarkably safe. On regularly scheduled passenger flights last year, there were three fatal accidents out of 4.9 million departures, with...
...pieces of the program fall together, their interrelationship becomes maddeningly complex. Even one letter misplaced in 10,000 lines of code is enough to throw the whole program out of kilter. At one stage in the game's development, the computer had the captain walking in mid-air because one subroutine was inadvertently modifying another subroutine's instructions. "I almost went blind trying to find that bug," Wise recalls...