Word: controller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After Penn's Julie Epton hit 1-of-2 from the line to make the score 77-74, Monti took control. She drove down into traffic at the corner of the paint, and threw up a tough shot that rolled around two or three times before finally rolling in with 29 seconds left...
...American economy churns and rumbles and sprays money this way and that, a message of ideological consistency would seem like mere pedantry. Reform, on the other hand, is a rubric under which people can toss all their small residual grievances, their nagging unsatisfied wants, whatever they are. Medicare? Gun control? Your failing school? Reform must be the answer. A revolutionary who promises to keep everything essential in place (the tax code, the military budget, the federal pension system) while promising to change everything--take our country back!--is the kind of revolutionary that Americans can get behind. Conservatives, liberals, moderates...
...mechanism had jammed in a position that was forcing its nose down. The crew radioed a company mechanic on the ground with an urgent plea: Were there any "hidden circuit breakers" that could cut off power to the horizontal stabilizer--the device they believed had taken deadly control of the plane? No, the mechanic replied, he didn't know of any. But as the plane temporarily stabilized, he signed off on an optimistic note: "See you on the ground...
...half was smooth flying: at 3:55 p.m. the crew received routine clearance to remain at a cruising altitude of 31,000 ft. The first sign of trouble came 15 minutes later, when--according to the National Transportation Safety Board--the pilot reported that he was having "control difficulties" and that the plane had descended to 26,000 ft. Moments later, it was down...
Despite the 7,000-ft. plunge, the crew seemed to regain control. But moments later, they were reporting that the plane had a jammed stabilizer and that they were having "trouble maintaining altitude." When it was clear there were no circuit breakers to disable the stabilizer, the crew requested permission to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. They told air controllers they wanted to remain over water as they prepared for landing...