Word: aloftness
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...stocked gift shop, and peeks in on a shop crammed with antique postcards. He exchanges a few joky words with Anthony Hawkins, the 36-year-old black manager of Harborplace. At the Kite Loft, Rouse pays $1.95 for a "puddle jumper," a wooden propeller on a stick that whirls aloft and settles gently into the harbor. Rouse is pleased to note that on a busy weekday, the pavilion is spotless...
...gasoline and jet-aviation fuel. Air carriers are a primary market for companies as diverse as Boeing Co. of Seattle, the world's leading maker of commercial aircraft, and Marriott Corp. of Washington, B.C., a hotel, entertainment and food services company that daily provided approximately 180,000 meals aloft before the strike. Airlines may be more dependent upon computers and data-processing equipment than any other private sector of the U.S. economy outside of banking and finance...
...chopping and thinking on his California ranch. Then, if current schedules hold, by Aug. 15 he will make up his mind and soon thereafter tell the world that he wants America's new MX missiles to be air launched, ultimately from new and sophisticated planes that could stay aloft for days...
DeLauer proposed that the MX first be carried by C-5A Galaxy transports, redesigned and shielded against nuclear-attack radiation. But by 1990 they would be moved to radically new planes that would have structural materials and wing configurations permitting them to stay aloft for as long as a week. Until that airborne MX system is in place, DeLauer suggested, the U.S. could rely on antiballistic missiles to protect its aging Minutemen...
...Once aloft, Moezi veered from the flight plan he had filed and headed west. The plane was actually over Turkey when it was caught by three Iranian Phantom jets. The fighter pilots radioed threats to shoot down the tanker but did not fire. One likely explanation: the fighter pilots' great respect for Moezi himself. Says Rajavi: "Had it been any other pilot than Moezi, we would have died...