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Common Cause has asked the Senate ethics committee to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the five Senators' efforts for Lincoln and their alliance with Keating, who has been in trouble with federal regulators once before. In 1979 the SEC cited Keating for receiving illegal loans and using corporate funds for the personal benefit of insiders...
...reflected a rare degree of cooperation between government leaders and securities markets around the world. Speaking to bankers last Monday, Greenspan declared that Federal Reserve officials "have kept in productive contact with our counterparts abroad" and that "coordination exists at a detailed level" between the Fed, the Treasury, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures markets. Wall Streeters immediately dubbed the cooperating agencies the "Group of Four...
...generators, designed by General Electric, is surrounded by an iridium shell. Coated pellets are then encased by two graphite shells and finally by an aluminum shroud. The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $50 million testing the generators. In one experiment, engineers fired shrapnel traveling 700 ft. per sec. at the iridium casings. None was pierced. In another test, scientists tacked an RTG to a solid rocket booster and blew it up. No damaged graphite shells were detected...
...Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...
...totally out of the fuzzy picture yet. A small firm in Irvine, Calif., Togai InfraLogic, has already achieved several of the goals MITI set for itself, including a fuzzy computer chip that can perform 28,600 fuzzy-logical inferences per sec. (FLIPS). And NASA is experimenting with fuzzy controllers that could help astronauts pilot the shuttle in earth orbit. The results so far, say NASA officials, are encouraging, and there is growing interest at such aerospace firms as Rockwell and Boeing. "The only barrier remaining" to wider use of fuzzy logic, says Kosko, "is the philosophical resistance of the West...