Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Casually attired in khaki trousers and a gray polo shirt, math teacher Tony Dula scribbles an algebra problem on a sheet of clear plastic and, using an overhead projector, throws the image on the blackboard for his class of 10th- graders. "O.K.," he says, "you have two minutes." Heads bow and sneakered feet tap softly on the floor. Suddenly a student in the second row breaks the silence. "Oooooh! I found it!," she cries. "I feel good!" Another girl waves her hand wildly from the back of the room. "Mr. Dula! Mr. Dula...
Those days are long gone. In Washington NASA is under siege, its reputation tarnished, its programs in disarray, its future clouded. Overhead, the crippled $2.1 billion Hubble Space Telescope orbits, its vision blurred by an embarrassing, inexcusable flaw in one of its reflecting mirrors. In Congress legislators are having second thoughts about any further funding of the highly touted $37 billion space station, questioning its usefulness and NASA's ability to assemble and operate...
Better coordination is also needed. Last year army troops were closing in on cartel chieftain Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha when an A-37 air force reconnaissance jet buzzed overhead. The aircraft was on an unrelated mission, but it alerted Rodriguez Gacha to the military's presence, and he escaped. And the explosion of narcoterrorism has diverted manpower: half of DAS's 3,000 agents guard politicians and judges whose lives are at risk...
Geography also plays a role in skin cancer. Equatorial regions, where the midday sun beams down from directly overhead, receive the most intense ultraviolet radiation. Farther north or south, solar rays strike the earth at a more oblique angle, taking a longer passage through the atmosphere, where the ozone layer absorbs more of the ultraviolet light before it can reach the surface...
...make our workplace so much more fun, and we can get rid of so much overhead. We have as much bureaucracy in some of our businesses as we have in Washington, because by de-emphasizing the quality of workers, we have to increase the number of supervisors. What a waste...