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...turns the pilots make are intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very...
...that have passed the point of no return--even if they don't know it. Kansas State's Darling says that once a town is down to its post office and silos, the decay is fatal. He estimates that 20% of Kansas' 627 incorporated communities are on the slippery slope to extinction...
...idea. Locally organized land giveaways have been tried sporadically for years, without much success. Typically, a town springs to action only when there is talk of shutting down the school. Yet by then the town is already on the slippery slope. In July 1981, Harley Kissner, then a 72-year-old bachelor who owned 640 acres near Antler, N.D., was alarmed by plans to shut down the school. He ran ads in three area newspapers offering ground to anyone who would build a house, move in with children and stay at least five years. The ads got national attention. "People...
...neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope his first time on skis. Burr embraced a romantic notion that he could make any team if he tried hard enough. Recalls his mother, Lorna Banks, 80: "He was always a very sentimental and emotional boy. He always had great faith and appreciation for people...
...view of the Reagan Administration, which believes that mergermakers should be unfettered by Government regulations. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Preston Martin and Board Member Martha Seger, who were both appointed by President Reagan, voted against the measure. Martin warned that the central bank was "starting on a slippery slope" in adopting the rule, but the Administration indicated last week that it will not challenge the central bank's move...