Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...would lose contact with Earth permanently, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is responsible for Magellan, put the imaging on hold while they tracked down the problem. It was apparently a faulty computer chip. Electronic signals have been rerouted to bypass the flaw, and meanwhile Magellan's control software is being entirely rewritten to make doubly sure there are no more lapses...
...losses, says Eastern trustee Martin Shugrue, is the rise of jet-fuel prices. The airline pays 96 cents per gal., up from 56 cents before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Last week Shugrue urged President Bush to form a task force to find ways to bring oil prices under control. Another money-losing carrier, Pan Am, is laying off workers and switching to smaller jets, while trying to sell its shuttle to Phoenix-based America West...
...life crisis of its own. Growth in the electronics market has slowed from 20% in the 1970s to about 10% in the past decade. Sony's move into the more profitable entertainment industry thus presented a challenge to Matsushita. By acquiring music and movie companies, Sony gained control of the software that helps stimulate the market for electronic products. Matsushita had little choice but to do likewise. The merger faces one bothersome hurdle: while Matsushita has a cash hoard of almost $10 billion and no long-term debt, rising interest rates and a sagging Tokyo stock market may make financing...
...place the blame for spending where itbelongs--on the Democrats, who control bothbranches of Congress," said Shamie...
LAST fall brought us a council bent on damage control. "No more screw-ups" was the rule of the day--no more flopping concerts or ROTC resolution shenanigans. Instead, members decided to think small and focus on "student service...