Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolfe's editors read over his ping-pong language, his "be-here-now!" style and decided not to reassign the piece. They figured all Wolfe's work needed was a little editing before publishing. They ended up simply striking the greeting to the editor at the beginning of the memo and published the story otherwise unchanged...
...depth finders operate on the same basic principle. A control box transmits an electronic pulse to a ceramic crystal called a transducer that is mounted to the boat's transom or hull. The transducer converts the pulse into a high-frequency sound wave, or "ping," which it beams downward. When the ping strikes the bottom, or hits a fish, it bounces back up. These echoes are picked up by the transducer and sent to the control unit for processing. Since sound travels through water at a known rate, depth is readily calculated from the time elapsed between transmission and reception...
...used to win in ping-pong," Jon says...
...currency-hungry China, the pandas are more popular ambassadors than Ping-Pong players. China rents out the animals for as much as $500,000 apiece for six months, while zoos rake in huge profits from increased attendance and souvenir sales. Says A.A.Z.P.A. Executive Director Robert Wagner: "If we don't watch what we're doing, we could love the giant panda into extinction in the next five years." Although Toledo will probably get its pandas, future short-term loans are in doubt...
...eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would cut 10,000 people, or 20%, of the State Council staff by the end of the year. The state-owned rail, oil, coal and nuclear industries would become public corporations under ministerial supervision but responsible...