Winglets Save Billions of Dollars in Fuel Costs. During the 1970s, the focus at Dryden Flight Research Center shifted from high-speed and high-altitude flight to incremental improvements in technology and aircraft efficiency.
Scorekeeper. Definition. The national media who keep track of and help make political reputations, note who is being mentioned as a presidential candidate, and help decide who is winning and losing in Washington politics.
ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.