Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Space shuttle Endeavour's launch was aborted just 1.9 sec. before liftoff. The problem was an overheated fuel pump in one of the ship's giant rocket engines. It was the fifth mission scrubbed on the launching pad in 64 flights...
Weld hopes that his re-election bid in November will be as successful as those two weeks he spent under the Hasty Pudding stage writing his thesis with pad and paper, an effort which culminated in a summa cum laude distinction...
Computer journals report that IBM will release a new series of Think Pad laptops within the month: the 755, 355 and 510. The new line is based on the ThinkPad 750, widely regarded as the standard of reference for portable computing...
...three new ThinkPads will continue to offer IBM's new mouse technology--in which usurers point on a fingertip sensitive pad to move the cursor--rather than the trackballs used in most portable computers...
...book a launching pad for a presidential run in '96? Asked two weeks ago about his intentions, Quayle told reporters, "I've thought about it. I will think about it long and hard over the summer." But the book's shoot-first, ask-questions-later approach has led a number of Republican officials to think -- or is it hope? -- that Quayle will not run. They are bolstered by reports from veteran Republican financiers that the former Vice President is not yet exciting the big donors who will play a major role in picking the nominee in 1996. A top California...