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Sidewinders and Sparrows are the bread and butter of America's air-to-air fighting capability: the $59,000 Sidewinder missile can zoom toward targets within an elevenmile range at twice the speed of sound; the $169,000 Sparrow missile is able to hit a target 31 miles away. But according to Frank Conahan, an investigator for Congress's General Accounting Office, one-quarter of the Navy's and Air Force's Sidewinders and one-third of their Sparrows are "unserviceable." Conahan's congressional testimony last week was just another in this year...
...town where life imitates screenplays, business resembles B war movies. Every morning baby moguls strap themselves into their BMWs and zoom off to wage battle and make deals at the studios...
...quarter of its income. Now the figure is one-third, and it is still rising. Banks and savings and loan associations have attempted to get more Americans into homes through new methods of financing, like adjustable-rate mortgages. These keep the initial payments down, but the monthly cost can zoom higher when interest rates rise. As a result of these developments, more and more Americans seem destined to continue renting and continue dreaming...
...group seemed insurmountable. Shawn, above all, was someone that everyone liked a good deal, but only eventually grew to realize they could not save. She was instantly likeable, and entered as Lionel's only certifiable celebrity; she had been a regular on the children's television show "Zoom," and was often recognized in the street. She was quiet yet friendly, and everyone considered it entirely in character when on her birthday she gave out presents to everyone else in the dorm. But behind the composure, residents of Lionel soon realized. Shawn had a profound inability to cope. People vaguely knew...
...year, such companies as GE, Sony and Zenith will be selling so-called digital TVs. These revolutionary devices contain microcomputers that translate conventional, wavelike TV signals into visual and audio information that the viewer can fine-tune on the screen. On some models, the user will be able to zoom in on Liberace's diamond rings, for example, or freeze Pete Rose in mid-swat. Digital technology can also increase picture clarity up to 100% and would make the images on home TV as clear as those in a good 35-mm slide...