Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invisible object piqued the interest of Berkeley Astronomer Hyron Spinrad, known for his studies of very dim, faraway galaxies and quasars. Last spring Spinrad and his team first pinpointed 3C 326.1's position with New Mexico's Very Large Array radio telescopes; then they aimed powerful optical telescopes at the spot and discovered a glowing object about 12 billion light- years from earth. Later analysis of light from 3C 326.1 revealed that it was a newborn galaxy, three times as long as the diameter of the Milky Way. At the time the light viewed by Spinrad left 3C 326.1, which...
...object of Helms' ire was General Manuel Noriega, commander of Panama's defense force and the nation's strongman since 1983. Helms accused Noriega, a onetime intelligence chief and right-hand man of the late populist dictator Omar Torrijos, of being "head of the biggest drug-trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere." Even Noriega's staunchest supporters in Washington suspected that Helms was on to something. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Noriega gets a cut of every kind of illicit business down there...
...until 1985 planes that passed within 1,000 ft. of each other vertically were considered too close, and the incident had to be reported; now the vertical-separation standard is just 500 ft. Under an accurate system, this change should produce fewer, not more, close-call reports. Some pilots object to this reduction in the near-miss distance, noting that if two airliners are six miles apart but headed toward each other at 550 m.p.h., they could collide in 20 seconds...
...Some pilots object to the snitch alarm as a superfluous electronic Big Brother, but few approve of controllers defeating the system. Charges a veteran American Airlines captain: "Dropping a plane from the screen is playing fast and loose with human life to avoid being pinpointed for a mistake. It's unconscionable...
...magic about $108 billion. But I think you have a problem if you abandon it without something better in its place." House Budget Chief Gray and incoming Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd have also suggested that Gramm-Rudman may have to be revamped. But the White House would probably object. Says Miller: "If we go back on Gramm- Rudman, the deficit will shoot right up again...