Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each morning he has walked some 50 yards from his house to a two-room cottage that serves as his study. He emerges around 1 for lunch and then disappears until 4:30 in the afternoon, when it is time for a swim in his pool or, if the weather has turned chilly, for a six-mile walk. He spends evenings listening to classical music and reading...
...angry tides, as high as 8 ft. above normal, surged along Atlantic beaches from the Carolinas to New England, destroying boardwalks and hammering homes. In the West, the highest tides in 20 years briefly closed part of the Pacific Coast Highway. To some, last week the fierce and freakish weather at both ends of the country seemed more than a mere coincidence...
...flow plan has indeed reduced the number of aircraft stacked in the skies in bad weather around major airports. Instead, the delays are taken in "gate holds" on the ground; planes are not allowed to leave until they have a chance to land promptly at their next stop. This prudent procedure caused more than 70,000 holiday travelers around the nation to be delayed last week when fog closed Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a major airline hub. While the air-flow controls may annoy passengers eager to get going on their trips, pilots and controllers prefer...
Still to be resolved are important questions about the system's reliability. Under FAA rules, TCAS II cannot be certified for all weather conditions unless it has less than a one-in-a-billion chance of failing. There is concern as well that the system is too excitable: in busy skies it could send out false alarms that could lead a pilot into dangerous and unnecessary maneuvers. Both the airline industry and the FAA think such nuisance alarms can be solved by fine-tuning TCAS II antennas...
Jazz Department member Rich O. Snyder '89 saidhe chose to do an orgy featuring Weather Reportbecause it is a band he has always enjoyed...