Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the President "can't control Billy" doesn't have a brother or sister...
...public favoring Republican congressional candidates over Democrats for the first time since 1952, 47% to 43%. The Democratic majority of 116 in the House could easily be reduced by 30 to 50 seats, and some Democratic leaders are afraid that a landslide Reagan victory might even cost them control of the House they have held since 1954. Democratic control of the Senate is also threatened; a shift of nine seats would hand over power to the Republicans for the first time since '54. Enough Democratic seats are in real danger to make that a distinct possibility...
...their margins in many are so thin that this fall they could lose control of the majority of the chambers for the first time since the New Deal. This is an especially ominous prospect for the Democrats, since legislators elected Nov. 4 will draw new lines for their own and congressional districts based on results of the 1980 census?and Republicans are as skilled as Democrats in gerrymandering districts to ensure the maximum number of future seats for their party...
Even the cool NASA professionals in the control room were not unmoved. With the orbiter's death came the end of another phase of the $1 billion Project Viking, the most ambitious mission to another planet to date. Back in 1975, twin spacecraft, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were sent off to Mars. A key objective: to determine if the Red Planet harbors life. After going into Martian orbit ten months later, the mated spacecraft split apart. Their spider-legged landers touched down on the surface, while the orbiters continued patrolling overhead, mapping the planet with...
...slim book cogently faces up to the U.S.'s peculiar public-private hostility-a phenomenon notably absent in other industrial societies, especially in West Germany and Japan. The book's basic message: the growth of Government control over business in the U.S. has been so rapid that almost no one in either the private sector or politics knows how to cope with it. The result: wasteful combat. Writes Irving Shapiro, vice chairman of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.: "For a long time the two [business and politics] have been circling around each other like gladiators in combat, blocking...