They would certainly recognize some of our heroic figures (trapped miners, soldiers, quick-thinking pilots), but not our shock at the personal conduct of others (sports stars, politicians).
In the tech sector this manifest itself as duplicated projects, quick-trial pilots with no back up funding, well-meaning competitions run by big institutions without any sustainable marketing plan for the technologies they produce and investors still reluctant to fund small projects because of fear or knowledge of the African market.
4: Demonstration projects can complement advocacy efforts - Such demonstration project can complement advocacy efforts and promote quick scale of pilot models, through leveraging public and external funding.
No one on board was injured, thanks in part to skilled flying by the pilot and the quick actions of several boaters, who rescued the passengers before emergency officials arrived, the authorities said.
Airbus had developed a common cockpit for their aircraft models to allow quick transition by pilots.
Slightly larger but some 240 pounds lighter now, the Pilot is quick.
Having taken off, the airline had to make a quick turnaround when the pilot heard the (presumably now less sleepy) worker banging on ceiling of the hold.
Quick thinking by the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 meant there were no human casualties when he ditched the plane into the Hudson River last month.
Senator Jay Rockefeller, the West Virginia Democrat who had helped secure the $334 million as part of the fiscal stimulus act, was quick to praise the pilot project and to say that the money would be available for other carbon-capture projects.
What might have been a catastrophe in New York — one that evoked the feel if not the scale of the Sept. 11 attack — was averted by a pilot's quick thinking and deft maneuvers, and by the nearness of rescue boats, a combination that witnesses and officials called miraculous.
