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...Bourget. Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power unit had to be flown from West...
Something of a turning point came, however, when the University negotiated a deal to prevent a large Harvard Square developer from building two large towers along the banks of the Charles River on a tract of land known as Parcel 1B. Instead, Harvard purchased the land itself and built the University Place office building along with the adjacent University Green condominiums--both of which opened...
That's for certain. Prior to the record $27.4 million invested in 1986, the single largest expenditure Harvard made for commercial property occurred in 1979, when the University purchased Parcel 1B for more than $4 million...
Prior to the record $27.4 million invested in1986, the single largest expenditure Harvard madefor commercial property occurred in 1978 with the$4 million purchase of the so-called Parcel 1B, apreviously undeveloped tract of land along theCharles River now occupied by the University Placeoffice building and the University Greencondominiums...
Unlike Rockwell International Corp.'s B-1B, which at least was constructed in public view, the Stealth is a "black" Pentagon program, with neither the aircraft's general performance nor its cost open to outside inspection. Industry rumors, however, claim the plane is already $2 billion over budget. "After seven years of testing, the Air Force still couldn't deliver a serviceable B-1B," said one critic. "Who knows what mistakes are being made behind the black wall of secrecy surrounding the Stealth bomber...