Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows and services are lavished on an extraordinary mammal. Weighing in at an average of 10 Ibs., the cat has a uniquely flexible backbone. When dropped from a height of less than one foot in an upside-down position, it will land on its paws in an incredible 1.8 sec. Its whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan...
...next day, the SEC charged Stix & Co. with securities-law violations. With $36 million unaccounted for, the 69-year-old firm suddenly had a negative net worth of $14 million, and four days after the SEC'S accusation, a federal district judge declared the firm insolvent...
...first hint of trouble in Columbia's electrical system, and soon fears arose that the spacecraft itself might be rocked by the same kind of explosion that nearly turned the Apollo 13 moon flight into a disaster. Mission controllers in Houston, who took technical command of Columbia 1 sec. off the pad, managed to ease the crisis by more of the improvised remote-control repair work that has saved the day in past emergencies. But one of Columbia's three battery-like fuel cells was ruined and the craft's electrical capability was reduced by a third...
...another picture-book landing on the hard-packed dirt of the dried lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where Columbia put down after her first sortie into space last April. As the ship touched down exactly 2 days, 6 hr., 13 min. and 10 sec. after the start of her globe-girdling flight, the pilot of a little chase plane said: "Welcome home." And the watching world, even the cool hands at Mission Control Center in Houston, breathed a collective sigh of relief...
...family, but the Buckleys are far from broke. Great Elm, however, is no longer the same. Its gracious 18th century mansion is being cut into a complex of fine condominiums. Priced from $175,000 to $200,000 each, they will, if sold, help ease the burdens imposed by the SEC's crackdown on the family's businesses...