Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely T-minus-2 min. 47 sec., the computer should have ordered pressurization of the liquid oxygen tanks in the Saturn 5's third-stage booster. But because two tiny electrical contacts in the computer's miniaturized circuitry did not touch, the signal was not given. That failure was noticed by an alert launch controller, who immediately threw a manual switch that started the necessary procedure. The computer, programmed only to check its own automatic signals, assumed that pressurization had not begun and stopped the countdown...
...newsmen and performers had personal as well as union contracts with the network, AFTRA'S order would expose them to contract-violation charges. AFTRA appealed the ruling but allowed its members-including those without personal contracts-to continue working. So the same familiar faces read the news (minus Walter Cronkite, recuperating from minor throat surgery); the same dulcet tones analyzed Thanksgiving and Sunday pro football games...
...Penney-manifestly hoping for gilt by association-all three networks maintained their honorable tradition of losing money on the Big Night. The answer does not lie behind the screen but before it. "Every man speaks of public opinion," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion." No matter what the polls said, the viewer had to see it for himself. What he saw was not only the President winning by a landslide but three networks involved in a tie for last place...
...mathematical functions instantaneously, yet are small enough to fit inside a man's suitcoat pocket. But lately manufacturers and retailers trying to cash in on the calculator craze have found themselves drawn into a price war that may leave some of the industry's pioneers in the minus column...
...with his former University of Illinois colleagues, Leon N. Cooper, 42, now of Brown University, and John R. Schrieffer, 41, of the University of Pennsylvania. They were honored for their fundamental work on superconductivity, a phenomenon that occurs in certain metals when they are chilled close to absolute zero (minus 459.7° F.). In that state, they lose all resistance to the flow of electric current...