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When the controller in the tower is sure that the runway is safe, he gives the command to go: "Eastern 158, cleared for takeoff." Soon after the jet leaves the ground, another technician in the station, known as departure control, picks up the jet on radar and guides it out of the general area of the airport. Next, a controller in one of the 20 air-route traffic control centers that blanket the country takes over responsibility, monitors the jet through his section of the sky, and then hands it on to the adjoining control center...
...does not drink." Nor is Elijah Muhammad to be considered the "Messenger of God." Wallace's view: "The Prophet Mohammed is the seal of the prophets, and the Koran is the last book." The soft-spoken Wallace Muhammad, who had originally wanted to be an electronics technician, privately questioned Fard's divinity as early as 1955. Twice his father expelled him from the sect for this heresy, but the banishments proved temporary, for as Wallace recalls, "Daddy used to say, 'Our Savior Master Fard told us that boy is different...
...research issue has reached national and possibly legislative importance. Diane Echevarria, a spokesperson for Science for the People and lab technician said yesterday. "The issue is larger than the laboratory. The group among us that sponsored the forum on DNA at Harvard are organizing the Washington trip...
Giant one-celled organisms--they couldn't have been any less than four feet tall--were literally enveloping everything in their path: farm animals, ears of corn, television news anchorpeople, controlled substances. And there was a lab technician in there, dressed up in a lab technician's outfit, and wearing a gas mask...
...lack of national recognition handicapped him, as did his concession to committee members: "I'm a technician." Managed by longtime Reagan Operative Lyn Nofziger, Richards got only 48 out of the 81 votes required to win on the first two ballots-coming in second both times-but he could not build on his conservative base...