Word: basics
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Despite their basic similarity, Boeing's new SST design differs in some ways from the one advanced by Lockheed. Boeing's delta wing will not be swept back quite so dramatically as that of the Lockheed model, a fact that should make the B-2707 slightly more efficient at subsonic speeds, slightly less so at its maximum cruise speed of 1,800 m.p.h. And while Lockheed planned to build its plane without a horizontal tail, the Boeing version will have a relatively conventional tail configuration...
...Like most of my generation, I have had to try to swallow Freud, Pavlov, Marx, and Pareto, as well as the more indigestible lumps which are not books, but experience...I think I have kept to the basic belief of my youth in the rightness--do I really wish to put it as righteousness?--of human reason. You may write me down as born in the eighteenth century and yet not too umcomfortable--not at any rate schizophrenic--in the mid-twentieth...
Cutting Deep. Even so, Humphrey and Nixon attack the issue from markedly different starting points. Said the Vice President last week: "I do not believe the American people are bitter or filled with hate. I do not believe that they're racists. I intend to appeal to their basic goodness." Nixon had a more calculated approach: "The quiet Americans, the silent Americans, who have not been the protesters, who have not been the shouters-their voice is welling up across the country today. The great majority of Americans are angry. They don't like what's been...
...Chore. Epstein then led his students through other technical papers until they could handle about three a week. By selecting the papers carefully, he ensured that basic concepts covered by conventional courses would be conveyed, but without resorting to tedious memorization. His approach was so successful that three of his colleagues adopted...
Checking the weather ought to be a basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...