Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publisher when someone mentioned Flight Simulator II, a program that puts Walter Mitty pilots into the cockpit of a single-engine airplane. An amateur aviator who flies a small jet out of his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...
...months ago, Deng launched what may be his final attempt to put his own mark, and some irreversible spin, on the history of China. Frankly admitting that it was "currently beset with many serious problems," the Communist Party leadership announced a three-year plan to review the ideological credentials of its 40 million members. The drive is designed in effect to purge the party of around a million unregenerate leftists, the majority of them ill-educated Maoists who have been desperately clinging to power...
...script called for Nelson to float to within arm's reach of Max's 7-ft.-long, windmill-Uke solar array panels and fire the minijets on his MMU to match Max's spin of one revolution every 6 min. Using a trunnion-pin attachment device (TPAD), a hollow canister-shaped mechanism strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed...
...threads his way past Solar Max's 7-ft.-long solar panels, which are slicing through space like slow-motion helicopter blades (the satellite rotates once every 6 min.). If Nelson can dodge this orbital buzz saw without incident, he will try to halt Solar Max's spin...
...deadline--Arco at $72, Socal at $80, and an extremely complicated offer worked out by some Gulf executives with the help of a financial house which specializes in this kind of corporate jihad. Although the in-house offer would have reaped the most--$87 per share with plans to spin off the least profitable branches of the company to increase its overall attractiveness--it was too complex to be digested and worked out by the March 14 deadline. And so Gulf went to Socal, the high bidder...