Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC to begin taking charge of satellite missions. By the 1990s ground control for military shuttles would shift from Houston to CSOC. To add to all this activity orbiting around CSOC, the Pentagon has selected Colorado Springs as the home of the U.S. Space Command, which will direct all defense-oriented space activities, including those at CSOC. This would make the once sleepy town at the base of Pikes...
...four employees who work the unenviable night shift at Wells Fargo's fortress-like depot in lower Manhattan reported for duty at 1 a.m. Two were guards carrying service revolvers; two were unarmed. Their job was to open the vault and load an armored car with money bags destined for the Federal Reserve Bank. One of the four, who knew the first half of the vault's combination, executed his part of the routine. Then another, who knew the second part of the combination, opened the safe, which contained about $20 million...
...killers who have no interest in discussing the complexity of the issues. He does not, of course, mention anything the speakers actually said--for example, one speaker's description of the kind of process women choosing to have an abortion go through, or another's recounting of her own shift from an anti-choice to a pro-choice position. Further, Pakaluk states "there was no discussion," attempting. I assume, to characterize the whole event as merely an RUS rally in support of destroying children. Well, there was discussion. People who were decidedly anti-choice attended and spoke their piece...
...theory, at least, the new technology has the power to transform the nature of the university. Much routine advising could shift to a network of personal computers linked to a common data base so that students could instantly have the answers to a host of factual questions, about course requirements, employment interviews, campus events, and homework assignments. In time, lectures could move from classrooms to television screens so that students could listen to a professor and immediately test their comprehension of the material by working through a series of questions and problems presented by an appropriate computer program. Science concentrators...
...evening before, investigating a possible break-in, O'Hara was crawling on a rooftop when he looked down and noticed that he had rolled in something very much like cat shit, making the rest of the night shift seem days long. He was wearing his galoshes now, waiting for his dress shoes to come back from the cleaner...