Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commanders. The plane (the second one will be ready next June) replaces the Boeing 707s in use since 1962. The President's quarters include an office that converts to a medical emergency room and a dining room. It flies 7,000 miles nonstop and, with aerial refueling, can stay aloft nearly three days...
...depended almost solely on the shuttle to orbit satellites until after the Challenger disaster, the U.S. has fallen behind in the development of expendable rocket launchers. More and more U.S. companies are looking to the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket, which last week carried two television satellites aloft, for placing commercial satellites in orbit, and also -- now that Washington has given its approval -- to the Soviet Proton...
...back into Texas, where it was deflated by remote control. In April a balloon at Marfa, Texas, was buffeted on the ground by winds and self- destructed. Another balloon that was due to be installed at Rio Grande City, Texas, has not yet been floated. That leaves just three aloft. But even when these helium-inflated giants are trouble-free, on-line agents question their effectiveness. They cannot be flown in bad weather, and the drug activity they pinpoint is often in remote terrain that undermanned law- enforcement agencies must spend hours to reach. When they get there, the dopers...
...because the cost of sending dividend checks and providing other services to all those one-share stockholders amounts to $100,000 a year, Playboy has decided to discourage souvenir collectors by issuing new certificates. Printed for the first time last week, the shares depict a "classically styled" woman holding aloft a globe to symbolize the company's international ambitions. Most notably, she is robed in a long, flowing gown...
...solar-powered electric car that in 1987 won a 1,867-mile race across Australia against 23 competitors, averaging 41 m.p.h. and beating the second-place finisher by two days; the Pointer, a 9 lb., battery-powered, TV- equipped observation aircraft that can be launched by hand, remain aloft for 75 minutes, transmitting back to the ground whatever it sees, and then make a soft landing; the General Motors Impact, a sleek, battery-powered electric car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h...