Word: sec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circulating false rumors of a corporate takeover, technology has also made it easier for law enforcement officials to catch criminals. Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Arash Aziz-Golshani and Hootan Melamed, both 23, with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and the two face civil charges from the SEC as well. It was a stunningly simple plan: One Monday morning, investor chat rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy ensued, and in a few hours, NEI stock was driven up from...
...sec. on Oct. 31. EgyptAir Flight 990 is cruising uneventfully at 33,000 ft. on its normal heading from New York City northeast across the Atlantic toward Cairo. At that moment, two distinct clicks of a button on the control yoke disconnect the autopilot guiding the plane. Eight seconds later, the control yoke is pushed forward, tipping the tail up, pitching the nose down, and the aircraft tilts into a precipitous but controlled dive. Fourteen seconds later, the aircraft reaches 90% of the speed of sound and zero gravity--weightlessness--as it plummets through the night...
After an additional 11 sec., the flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder stop working; the altitude-reporting transponder quits. Land radar tracks the plane as it climbs 8,000 ft. with a force of gravity 2 1/2 times normal. Then the aircraft stalls, lurches downward, breaks apart and leaves nothing on the radar screen but a cascade of neon debris falling into...
...line. I was startled when the ringing came from the modem, not the phone. But I could still answer my phone and have a scintillating conversation with myself before hanging up and getting back online. I had to make it snappy, however, since the system gives me only 7 sec. before it takes the modem off line. Actiontec is working on a longer time frame, but don't expect it anytime soon...
...Number of average 30-sec. TV spots you could buy for that amount--equivalent to 124 days of continuous programming...