Word: blew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases, blew into the open, rattling Washington and the nation's military-industrial complex...
...other second-half assists weren't enough, Lux found Dave Kramer open at the top of the box. Faster than you could say, "The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis," Kramer's screamer blew straight into...
...then navy blew the whistle on Harvard's comeback train. Donnelly (18 saves) and his defensive mates got stingy. Basile and his offensive buddies decided to get back into the flow of the game...
...plastic duct past a running engine on an A300 Airbus, which sucked the part out of his hands and into its intake. According to the carrier's machinists' union, a mechanic wanted to take the engine apart, but a foreman overruled him, and four months later the engine blew up after the plane took off from Miami. The airline denies any connection between the incidents. In a separate episode in February, a Continental 747 taking off from London's Gatwick Airport abruptly lost power in one engine. The plane came close enough to a hill...
...shocking Aloha Airlines accident, in which the roof blew off a worn Boeing 737, has heightened doubts about management and maintenance. The Aloha episode is only the most dramatic of mechanical snafus that have ranged from clogged fuel filters to cracked turbine blades. For at least one airline, Eastern, accusations of lax upkeep are scaring away some customers...