Word: buoys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When experts at the Pentagon recently examined a Soviet ocean buoy obtained by American intelligence agencies through unspecified means, they were not surprised at what they found. The printed circuit boards inside the buoy, which was designed to help track U.S. submarines, were pin-for-pin compatible with those produced by Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas. T.I., needless to say, had not sold them to Moscow or indeed to any Communist bloc enterprises. Similarly, the Soviets feigned innocence a year ago, when they tried to buy sophisticated U.S. equipment that tests the strength of concrete, claiming that they needed...
...There are buoys meant to keep us in lanes going around a turn," coxswain Greg Soghtkian said yesterday. "The umpire tod me that our buoy was a little row boat I thought I was supposed to go outside of it and I went inside so he started yelling as us that we are going around a turn," at us that we are going off course and that unsettled me and the rest of the boat...
...successful cartel, says any definition, must be able to control production and thereby set prices in good and bad times. The failure of OPEC to do that now makes it a sort of fair-weather cartel, strong in the late 1970s when the world's economies were buoy ant and had high demand for its oil, but weak now when Europe and the U.S. are less dependent upon its energy...
...often does in this Rivalry, a little bit of magic propelled Harvard to a 22-7 Upset. Sophomore Jim Callinan (who this year bettered the single-season Harvard rushing record) sacked up 73 yeards on the ground, and classmate Pete Coppinger (this season's captain) snared two interceptions to buoy the Crimson past the stunned Bulldogs and 70,000 incredulous observers...
...festivities began at 10 a.m., when all 30 boats flocked towards the MIT boathouse and coxswains frantically tried to find the buoy marking the starting line. The shells began the race, staggered 10 seconds apart...