Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armed for the first time with an accurate picture of the mantle's distorting effects, geophysicists around the world began an intensive probe of the core itself. Using supercomputers, they combined millions of seismological observations collected at some 3,000 surface monitoring stations into a single, overall picture. The image is fuzzy, admits Robert Clayton, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology, "but I think everybody now agrees there is some kind of topography down there...
Almost everything the company produces these days seems to fly out of showrooms. The latest Ford model is a hot two- door hatchback called the Probe, which was designed and developed in a joint project with Mazda. -- Lee Iacocca sounds off in his second book, Talking Straight. -- A mess of misleading economic indicators fluctuate wildly and go through repeated revisions...
...they probe the intricate workings of the immune system, scientists are awestruck. "It is an enormous edifice, like a cathedral," says Nobel Laureate Baruj Benacerraf, president of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The immune system is compared favorably with the most complex organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information," explains Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr. Stephen Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes molecules...
...could weigh heavily on the minds of consumers. Katherine Dallam, a 31-year-old computer-graphics entrepreneur in the Bronx, worries about flying because, among other things, she keeps hearing about "parts falling off the planes." Eastern has acknowledged a decline in bookings in the wake of the FAA probe, even though both that carrier and Continental expect the investigation to exonerate them. Ronald King, a Brooklyn school counselor, almost canceled two Eastern tickets for a Bahamas vacation with his girlfriend. Says he: "I had to stop reading the newspaper so I wouldn't get scared of getting...
...growing clamor about Texas Air prompted the FAA to launch an unusual plane-by-plane inspection of the Eastern and Continental fleets (total planes: 636) last month along with a probe to determine whether Texas Air is financially stable enough to run its airlines safely. While the FAA found such violations as a faded red EXIT light, a frayed seat belt and a minor oil leak, the agency says it has uncovered no major problems during the investigation, which is expected to conclude next week. Texas Air believes the special inspection will exonerate the airline and win back public confidence...