Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approaching peak of the solar cycle, to gather information on the effects of the sun's activities on the earth. The robot observatory has been crippled for the past three years because of a minor electrical problem. Flying to the satellite with his manned maneuvering unit (MMU), an astronaut will attach himself to the ailing bird. Then he will use the force of the MMU'S jets to arrest the satellite's slow spin so that it can be grappled aboard the shuttle by the remote-controlled arm. The satellite will be overhauled inside the shuttle...
...getting the former owners to work it for wages. Ironically, the capitalists soon discover themselves in the same fix as Communists who nationalized agriculture: yields drop because farmers will not put in 18-hour days on someone else's acreage. The company is left to confront its "farm unit management problems," and Nowell sinks deeper into the macroeconomic dust bowl...
...France of the 1950s, the domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal...
...fair to all his men and women. He was very easy to talk to, but it was clear who was the boss," says Richard C. Cox, head of the detective unit at Area B for the past 18 months and a 16-year veteran of the Boston police force...
...spacecraft ever since Cosmonaut Alexis Leonov undertook the first EVA (for extravehicular activity, in NASA jargon) in 1965. But they have always been securely hooked to a lifeline. This time they will rely entirely on a Buck Rogers-type contraption called, with a touch of sexism, a manned maneuvering unit...