Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ejecting gas through nozzles, for instance, is called "nozzle gas ejection ship attitude control." The longest nominal compound discovered by McNeill appeared in the Congressional Record, and sounded as if it had been translated literally from the German: "liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen rocket powered single stage to orbit reversible boost system...
...labor problem grows as fast as RMK-BRJ. Already the country's second largest employer, next to the Vietnamese government, the combine hopes to boost its force by 50%, to 60,000 workers by this fall, as projects pass the $1 billion mark. Though not a great deal can be done immediately about wages, the workers' councils can accomplish much to ease misunderstandings between the Vietnamese and their harddriving, highly motivated U.S. foremen, and settle other squabbles. RMK-BRJ hopes to have elections as soon as possible at its dozen biggest sites...
...advertising campaign in the U.S., Olympic hopes to win away from TWA and Israel's El Al, its only competitors on the New York-Athens run, at least 30% of the 115,000 Americans who will fly direct to Greece during the next 12 months, boost profits from...
...without having large permanent deployments of troops far from home. Reason: technological progress will give the armed forces such mobility as to permit retrenchment to locations in or close to the U.S., from which they can jump off for trouble spots on short notice. Mobility will get its biggest boost with the introduction in about three years of the C-5A, a transport capable of carrying 700 troops at 550 m.p.h. One hundred C-5A sorties would enable the Pentagon to throw 70,000 troops into any trouble spot in a few days. Soldiers will take only light equipment, will...
Something of a Puritan. During Sarit's five years of rule, he and the King worked closely together to boost the Thai economy, set up development programs for the troubled northeast. It was an unlikely partnership. Sarit...