Word: dd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diving scores are calculated by taking the judges' awards on a particular dive and multiplying their sum by the degree of difficulty (DD) pre-assigned by the national rules committee to that dive. The harder the dive, the higher the DD. DDs range from...
...half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive's DD...
...desperately wanted to learn the new dive, though, knowing that she would need the higher DD when late-season championship competition began...
Performing the old nemesis as the third dive on her list, Pam fully completed the somersaults in the air and knifed into the water nearly perpendicular. The judges' awards of seven, seven, seven-and-one-half, when multiplied with the dive's DD of 2.3 gave her a very respectable total of 49.45 on the dive which had caused so much frustration in the early season. So much for the bombadier squad...
Cost estimates are also spiraling upward on a $2.1 billion Navy order for 30 Spruance-class DD-963 destroyers, a new model to be used primarily for antisubmarine duty. Although the contract is designed to hold Litton to fixed prices, it allows for inflation and some other variables that may permit the company to collect additional sums. Some estimates put the eventual cost of each new destroyer at $100 million, v. the $90 million that the Navy deems appropriate; the question is how much of the extra cost will be paid by Litton and how much by the Navy...