Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia). Even minus the diversionary bounce of Mike Nichols' sight gags, Murray Schisgal's comedy packs a satirically impressive bite...
...jets to turn him to one side, say the engineers, all he should have to do is say "yaw" into his microphone. If he wants to make a fast turn, he will say "yaw, yaw, yaw." Direction of the yaw will be determined by saying "plus" or "minus," and the computer that is listening will tell the mechanism to execute the command...
Other word commands are "X," "Y" and "Z," which call for motion in one of three directions. The astronaut can also say "stop," to end whatever action is going on, or "cage" to shut down the whole apparatus. "Stop-plus" and "stop-minus" might be used to switch on the gyro apparatus that keeps his attitude stabilized within two different degrees of accuracy...
They waited and waited. Finally Smitherman and Pilcher decided that Race Horse probably did not intend to return. They also realized they were minus...
...National Labor Relations Board condemned the closing as an illegal tactic born of Roger Milliken's "antiunion animus" and aimed at curbing unionism among Deering Milliken's 19,000 other employees. The board ordered back pay (now an estimated $12 million), minus interim earnings, for Darlington's fired workers until they found equivalent jobs. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond refused to enforce the NLRB order. The court said that Darlington had an "absolute prerogative" to quit business in whole or part at any time it wished. Having thus fairly ended the employment relationship, ruled...