Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges" (surcharges for hard-to-clean clothes such as linen or silk garments) on sales tickets. Now a computer enters the extras automatically. Dixie also mails monthly computer-prepared bills to customers who open charge accounts. That pleases customers, who save a few minutes on every trip to the store. But how does one measure their increased satisfaction...
...space missions NASA has ever planned is turning out to be one of the least publicized. The target is a large asteroid named 1992KD, which orbits the sun millions of miles from Earth. But that destination is almost incidental to the performance of the spacecraft that will make the trip. Though it looks little different from countless other unmanned probes NASA has launched, the ship will be navigated by an electronic brain that has been likened to HAL, the independent-minded computer in the film 2001, and will move through space under power of a system that has long been...
...know that Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud spent six days in Washington last week. Apart from Beltway commuters who encountered his 50-car motorcade and a handful of Foggy Bottom specialists, few noticed that Saudi Arabia's virtual ruler had come and gone. The low-profile trip generated scarcely a headline, the way the cautious Saudis prefer it. But this was no ordinary visit. It was the third leg of a monthlong coming-out tour of major world capitals to deliver an important if understated message: after three years of uncertainty in the kingdom, marked by terrorist...
Then there's the site-sponsored contest, "Predict History." Here visitors help make resignation a bit easier by composing the President's farewell speech for him. The winner will earn a trip to the island of Elba, Napoleon's retreat after he called it a day. Another contest involves predicting the date and hour of the President's resignation. The winner earns a trip to wherever the First Family flees after the moment of ultimate disgrace...
Marina A. Bibo '99 plans an action-packed weekend as well--hiking at New Hampshire's Mt. Monadanock followed by a trip home to Cape Cod. While pleased to see her family, Bibo's motivation is more prosaic...