Word: base
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stealing three F-16 jet-fighter engines and whisking them out of a military air base is no easy feat. The $2 million Pratt & Whitney machines are 17 ft. long and weigh more than 3,000 lbs. each. But two weeks ago, a military policeman at Utah's Hill Air Force Base towed the mighty machines through an unguarded gate and flogged them to a dealer in military surplus...
...auto on the market. Road & Track named it one of the five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers are tacking on a premium of as much as $4,000 to the base price...
TWENTY years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon, President Bush now wants the U.S. to return there. His plan calls for the establishment of a permanent lunar base, which would serve as a way-station for an expedition to Mars, and eventually as a stepping stone for further exploration of the solar system...
...Embarrassed Soviet officials later explained that the MiG's pilot had ejected shortly after takeoff from Poland's Kolobrzeg air base, in the mistaken belief that his aircraft had lost power. The plane flew on automatic pilot for 1 hour and 37 minutes, covering 560 miles before falling out of the sky. Soviet officials promised to pay for "physical and moral damages" caused by the mishap...
...democracy movement is at a low point," says Yang, "we can do it here--use the foreign countries and students as a base for the prodemocracy movement...