Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of its 1,875 F-16s ($13.7 million apiece), many of which will have to be modified or prematurely mothballed. They have also found breaks in 37 of their 97 high-tech B-1 bombers, adding to the troubles of the controversial and expensive ($300 million apiece) craft...
...standards for welding a new high-tensile steel that apparently permitted too much carbon in the welding rod. Though the hull was 15% completed when the problem was detected, builders may have to start from scratch using new steel. There are serious doubts whether the $2.5 billion sub-killing craft will ever...
...challenge for Latinos is to craft new election boundaries that will ensure winnable districts without aggravating Hispanics' tense relationships with blacks. In Houston, for example, blacks and browns have clashed over school-board realignments and a proposed city council expansion. "The big question is, Where do you draw the lines?" says Franklin Jones, a political scientist at Texas Southern University. "As Hispanics strengthen their push toward inclusion, we'll see more conflicts...
Jamieson arrived here from Massachusetts in 1954, when TIME was 31 years old. He polished his craft over nearly four decades, writing and editing in every section, acting as managing editor on countless occasions and, by example and firm prodding, nurturing the talents of several generations of staff people...
...first Terminator, a model of clean craft and violent wit, was a retelling of the New Testament's Annunciation story: the Archangel Gabriel (a rebel from the 21st century) visits the Virgin Mary (a Los Angeles waitress named Sarah Connor) to tell her she is to be the mother of a political messiah -- and that if she wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton...