Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk and down the arms. Even as the Mahres did their twin-brother act one more time, they seemed to symbolize a passing of the old order, in a mixed-up, wonderful two weeks of blizzards, postponements and splendid achievements...
...found that we could get a better deal from banks here in the Twin Cities area and they will provide us with better secondary market activities. We found we could get a better deal from the banks than from Sallie Mae and the reason for this and this is kind of perverse is that their profit requirements were fairly lower than Sallie...
...that their rocket motors had apparently shut down prematurely before completing their scheduled 85-sec. "burns." The prime suspects are the bell-shaped nozzles from which the boosters' flaming gases are expelled. McDonnell Douglas, builder of the rockets, is assembling a board of inquiry to look into the twin failures, which left the satellites far short of their intended orbits 22,300 miles above the earth, yet now beyond the reach of the shuttle for a possible rescue...
Minivans do not go for a miniprice. Chrysler's models start at $8,700 and run as high as $14,000. A Toyota Van Wagon equipped with an icemaker, front-and rear-seat air conditioner and twin sunroofs can cost $16,000. The average price of a new car sold in the U.S. today is close to $11,000. All the major automakers are going after this fast-growing market. Toyota will ship 40,000 of its Van Wagons to the U.S. this year, and Volkswagen expects to sell 25,000 Vanagons in America during 1984. General Motors...
...failure immediately confronted NASA with the question of whether it should go ahead with the launch of Westar's twin, Indonesia's Palapa B2, scheduled for the next day. Palapa is to be used as a telecommunications link between the 13,677 islands of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago. At week's end, NASA decided to postpone the launch at least for a day while ground controllers probed the Westar accident. If Indonesia requested a deferral until a later mission, the shuttle would have to bring the satellite back to earth. The added weight would speed the shuttle...