Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short supply last week, but a daiquiri stand was an instant success, as was the bar in the Australian Pavilion (where an oversize can of Foster's Lager was going for $5.50, and going very well indeed). Swelling the city's already eclectic cuisine is an international array of offerings from bratwurst and gelato to the spicy home-town jambalaya. Some food sellers, however, particularly those in the out-of-the-way market area, reported that fairgoers were not gobbling their fare at quite the anticipated rate...
...more and more mysterious. The Air Force refused to identify the plane he was piloting, except to call it "an Air Force specially modified test aircraft." At first, speculation centered on a group of aircraft under development at Nellis that use the new and highly classified Stealth technology, an array of design innovations supposedly capable of making aircraft virtually invisible to enemy radar. Then came an even more intriguing, though also unconfirmed, report: Bond was actually flying a Soviet-built MiG-23 Flogger, the primary fighter craft of the Soviet air force, with a maximum speed of some...
...array of goodies at the top poses the hazard of a backlash among lower-echelon managers. The auto engineers at Ford, for example, traditionally the loyal core of the company, have lately taken to griping and restlessness. A major defense contractor, Drucker says, recently lost 20 prized engineers who had received only a 3% salary boost at a time when top management got a package of incentives totaling 30%. Says Drucker: "Resentment over top-management compensation is by no means confined to unions and rank-and-file employees...
...RONALD REAGAN gets his way the U.S. will soon embark on a costly and insane attempt to protect itself from nuclear attack with a vast array of space and earth-based lasers, particle beams, and missiles...
American hopes are directed at a vast array of government and private projects investigating parallelism and the supercomputers of the future, but nowhere is the effort more visible than where it is most crucial. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been designe to stimulate research that will insure national security and perhaps the "Star Wars" defense advocated by President Reagan...