Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DESIGNS modern airplanes? Probably people with with lobotomies, because planes are stupidly constructed vehicles. Hardly anybody travels in groups of three, yet 727 designers crank out planes with seats in groups of three every year. For people travelling in pairs, this means somebody has to sit in that horrible middle seat--you know the one: the seat designed for people without arms. For people travelling by fours, it means three people get to sit together and the fourth person has to sit 15 rows behind...
Looking at these seats wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to sit in them. But alas, you do, no matter what your knees tell you. Thinking about crossing your legs? Forget it. And as soon as the 350-pound woman in the seat in front of you puts her seat back to go to sleep, you can forget you ever had knees until you arrive at the airport...
...When all of us went to architecture school, we thought being an architect had something to do with building," says Badanes, 43, while sitting with the others in the Jersey Devil office trailer parked just opposite his Airstream. "But most architects these days sit in their offices, design their places down to the last details and then hand the plans over to be built by someone else. Now I ask you, which approach do you think would make for better results? Do you sit in your office and look up stock answers in your books? Or do you move...
...reaching targets inside the Soviet Union and guaranteeing that the U.S. would not just come to Europe's defense but would do so with nuclear weapons. The independent deterrents of Britain and France by definition cannot function as an American trip wire, and U.S.-based strategic weapons might sit out a war in Europe. U.S. short-range and battlefield weapons might blunt a Soviet blitzkrieg but cannot carry the war to the Soviet homeland. In the jargon of nukespeak, some Europe-based, intermediate-range American weapons are necessary to serve the cause of "coupling" between the U.S. and its allies...
...trademark black cowboy boots, standing in splendid isolation halfway up a mountain. The lone political warrior towering above his rivals is precisely Hart's position nine months before the Iowa caucuses. It has been Hart vs. a still indistinguishable field ever since New York Governor Mario Cuomo decided to sit out the 1988 race. A Washington Post-ABC News preference poll of Democrats last month gave Hart 46% and Jesse Jackson 14%, with no other active or potential candidate registering above...