Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Order production of about 50 new bombers based on the B-1 design that Carter had scrapped. This aircraft, capable of penetrating Soviet air defenses, would bridge the gap between the aging B-52s and a new radar-evading "Stealth" craft to be perfected later. Fifty B-1s would be about half the number the Pentagon wants...
...decline, and even the disappearance, of some once great American newspapers is to those who love the craft of newspapering like the personal loss so many travelers felt when the great transatlantic liners disappeared. Those big liners had their distinct personalities-the French liners with their exuberant meals, the reliable and stately Queens. Newspapers had decided characteristics too, in the days when the Philadelphia Bulletin jauntily advertised that in Philadelphia NEARLY EVERYBODY READS THE BULLETIN, when the Washington Star faithfully reflected the "cliff-dwellers" in the nation's capital. Later, attempting to change with the times, but perhaps...
...week on military questions. The U.S. Air Force had once boasted of the awesome capabilities of its AWACS as well as its relative invulnerability to air attack when escorted by modern fighters. Now, however, both the Defense and State departments were trying to assure Israel that the electronics-laden craft is no threat to that nation's security. Under Secretary of State James Buckley suggested that the relatively slow (530 m.p.h.) AWACS planes, which are modified Boeing 707 jetliners, could easily be shot down by Israeli fighters if they strayed close enough to Israel's borders to permit...
...says, giving a brief Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation. Then she lapses into the somewhat prosy shoptalk of a college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed for the character went up and happened." Then the arc-and-craft jargon drops away, and she says a bit wistfully: "Watching the film, I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful. There comes a point when you have to look the part, especially...
...obvious importance of the craft has led to a new demand, by Smith and others, for recognition at the Academy Awards, along with myriad other special categories. "The academy has never had a permanent Oscar for makeup artists," says Smith. "The fact that they didn't give an award last year-with so many obvious candidates to choose from-points out the inadequacy of the system." Fay Kanin, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, promises that the academy will look at the complaints and make a decision, probably in the fall. It had better hurry...