Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to keep stirring it up well after it landed. Curled up inside Pathfinder like a mechanical kangaroo joey was Sojourner, a 1-ft.-tall, 2-ft.-long robot car, known as a rover, designed to trundle away from the lander and investigate rocks all over the desert-like site...
...they've always been beset with problems. Recently, for instance, when Microsoft began backing a ratings standard known as RSACI and started including the filter as part of its browser, Internet Explorer, the company quickly found that the "solution" could keep large numbers of viewers away from its news site, MSNBC. Microsoft quietly removed the rating. The problem should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range as porn. While RSACI officials have proposed offering a news exemption, it's hard to see how that could...
...four-story building until it settles safely on the planet surface. A small rover named Sojourner (24.5 inches long by 18.7 inches wide) will then emerge to study the planet's geological characteristics. Pathfinder will land at the dry mouth of an ancient channel called Ares Vallis. The site was picked for its relatively flat surface and the variety of rock and soil samples it may present. While the mission has ambitious scientific objectives, a more crucial goal is to show the system can do the job faster, better and cheaper than the pricey missions of the past...
...plant in the Rawalpindi suburbs was similar to an M-11 rocket facility in Hubei province in central China. Reports from agents on the ground, along with telephone intercepts, revealed that about a dozen engineers from the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp. have visited the Rawalpindi site. The state-run corporation, based in Beijing, is in charge of marketing missiles like the M-11 overseas. The CIA also spotted crates containing what it believed were machine tools for building rocket motors being shipped by the Chinese corporation to the plant...
Beal Companies demolished this historic site after a community-based protest led by Timothy McHale and supported by Brighton-Allston Historical Society and Boston Preservation Alliances. Beal Companies proceeded with destruction in 1995 despite the Landmarks Commission's designation of the site as a temporary protected landmark...