Word: 2000s
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North African and Middle Eastern countries account for more than 76% of French arms revenues. Much of last year's spurt in orders came from a $3.22 billion deal with Saudi Arabia for surface-to-air missiles and an oil-for- aircraft arrangement that will send 18 Mirage 2000s to the United Arab Emirates. French arms also have been sold to Iraq for use in the war with Iran. Last year France probably sold more arms to the U.S. than it bought, and reportedly won two contracts worth $83 million to supply 4,000 runway penetration bombs...
Indeed, it already has: the Indians, who are also plentifully supplied by the Soviets, have reduced an order for British Jaguar jets and turned to the French for 150 of the more powerful Mirage 2000s...
Still, the main function of an industrial robot is not to think but to work, and there are many jobs that a sufficiently muscular and adroit five-year-old could do admirably. At Pratt & Whitney's automated casting factory in Middletown, Conn., ten of Unimation's Unimate 2000s are building ceramic molds for the manufacture of engine turbine blades. The company expects the new molds to help increase production from 50,000 to 90,000 blades a year. No less important, the robot-made molds are so much more uniform that their blades last twice as long...