Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wearing a black cowboy hat, blue pants and a blue sweatshirt, Pilot Dick Rutan signaled a jaunty thumbs-up last week as he emerged from the phone booth-size cockpit of his spindly aircraft Voyager. For Rutan, 48, and his copilot Jeana Yeager, 34, the landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., marked the completion of an extraordinary mission: a 25,012-mile global trip in 9 days, 3 min. and 44 sec., the first time that a plane had circled the earth nonstop without refueling...
...cuts became inevitable because of the company's uneven performance. AT& T's long-distance service has remained lucrative (an estimated $1.8 billion in profits this year), as have equipment sales to phone companies (1986 earnings: $375 million), but many new lines of business are lagging. AT&T lost between $700 million and $1 billion this year on sales of computers and large computerized phone systems. The firm's 7300 series personal computers and its Unix computer operating system, which were introduced in 1985 just as the industry-wide computer slump was deepening, are still selling slowly. In addition...
...Swiss bank account listed to Lake Resources -- one of the CIA's depositories for the Iran arms money. "He said he knew nothing about the arms deal with Iran," Furmark said of Casey. "He asked me whether I knew Poindexter, and I said no. He then picked up the phone and tried to ! reach Poindexter but couldn't." Furmark next saw Casey on Oct. 16 when he joined the Director and his wife on a flight from Washington to New York City. Casey told Furmark that he had not yet found out about any missing money, but promised to keep...
...sales to the contras. On Nov. 25, when Attorney General Meese identified McFarlane as one who knew about the siphoning, McFarlane drafted a public statement saying, "I took it to have been a matter of approved policy, sanctioned by higher authority," and read that statement to North over the phone. North's reply: "Of course it's true. You know I would never do anything that wasn't approved...
...will soothe: "You're not getting your money's worth if it's not hard. It's a challenge. It's a good item for a family project." There! That's it! Family project. Just the thing to work on with the children and perhaps, too, with some holiday phone help from Cousin Jonas, who has, among other sterling qualities, full tenure at M.I.T...