Word: tether
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...owner and trainer he works for have made him throw too many races, and he has reached the end of his tether. Either he rides to win, he insists, or he will not ride...
...Salyut's open hatch. Both were wearing a new type of space suit equipped with a radio and an hour's supply of oxygen. Thus when cosmonauts are working outside an orbiting spacecraft, they require no umbilical link to the mother ship other than a simple tether to keep them from drifting off. Everything was going smoothly during Grechko's extraterrestrial stroll until Salyut passed over the western Pacific Ocean-out of range of Soviet ground stations. Suddenly, Romanenko, who was not tethered, jumped out of the hatch...
Jogging is a very '70s pursuit, and Hausman's goons have to shoo away armies of gum-soled fitness freaks whenever they get in Hair's way. Most are gracious, and one even pitches in to help tether a 40-ft. red phallic balloon for the crew. But a thirtyish intruder does not take it well...
...channels, two commercial radio stations and the data from 5,000 to 10,000 microwave circuits. At present, the aerostat must be hauled down once a week to refuel the Wankel-powered electric generator; in the future, electric power may be sent up directly from the ground through the tether cable, allowing the balloon to be left aloft almost indefinitely...
...balloon system, they are not only cheaper than satellites, but also considerably less costly than ground-based microwave-relay communications systems. TCOM's president, Richard Cesaro, concedes that small modifications may be needed to meet local conditions. In regions inhabited by parrots, for instance, the balloon's tether may have to be made of a material other than the Dacron-like synthetic now used. Parrots, it seems, love to chew on the stuff...