Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pounds of fuel to rotate the craft into various nose-forward, "low drag" positions, in the hope that this would prolong Skylab's life by anywhere from one to five more orbits. By contrast, a second option would be to send the vehicle into an early tumble, which would cut from one to three orbits from its natural, uncontrolled reentry. A third option would be to do nothing and let gravity take its course...
...rockets attached to its sides. At an altitude of about 28 miles, the spent rockets will be dropped by parachute into the sea, where they can be recovered and towed back to shore for another launch. But the big tank will be carried almost all the way up, then cut loose. Tumbling end over end, it should burn up in the atmosphere, although a few pieces may plunge into the ocean. Finally the shuttle continues to fire its own engines to ease itself into orbit at elevations of 115 to 690 miles, typically 175 miles...
...little doubt as to which of the two was in control. As cameras flashed before their serious talks got under way, Strauss handed Begin a letter from Carter and started to spin a yarn about how his "Grossmama " would slowly pore over a letter while others watched. Begin cut him off in midsentence, asking, "I sent you a very important letter last week. Did you receive it?" Strauss had, it turned out, but score one for the Premier...
...spent the next two days trying to invigorate the autonomy talks; three previous meetings of the Israeli and Egyptian negotiating teams had bogged down in fruitless haggling over the agenda. At his first session with the delegations, Strauss urged the two sides to stick to substantive issues, and abruptly cut off digression. He later confessed: "They probably found me somewhat abrasive, pressing them harder than they liked. My style has a bit of impatience to it, and it's not totally uncalculated...
...effort to cut down on gasoline consumption, as well as traffic accidents, European governments are trying anew to enforce the speed limits imposed on the Continent's highways in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis. The response of motorists has been, well, wrathful. In West Germany, strident opposition greeted a modest proposal to place an 81-m.p.h. (130 km) limit on the currently unrestricted superhighways. In Italy, tempestuous public resistance to restrictions ended in a historic compromise involving an 87-m.p.h. limit on autostradas for Maseratis and other high-powered cars, with less powerful vehicles subject...