Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favored company is the Pittsburgh-based Dravo Corp., which in 1983 underbid four other builders to win a $102.9 million contract to construct a steam plant for the Navy at the Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political...
...hear the defectors tell it, you have to be an unemployed monk with rich friends to run comfortably. The nominating process, the product of accident rather than design, imposes crushing demands. At some point each hopeful must ask a cruel question: Am I a thick-skinned workaholic unconcerned about my . family's privacy, with enough ambition and money to carry me through more than 30 primaries and hundreds of fund raisers...
...receiving fax. When contact is made, an electronic scanner is activated. As it moves across the page, it converts the text, charts and pictures into electrical pulses that are carried over the telephone line. On the receiving end, the process is reversed. The machines can transmit everything from design plans to a picture of the Mona Lisa, in black-and-white at least...
Five other mines were quickly spotted, their spikes protruding ominously as they bobbed in the sea. If the mines looked rather primitive, there was good reason: most of them were based on a World War I design. According to Defense Department officials, some of the explosives were manufactured by the Soviets. Moscow sold large numbers of the mines to North Korea, which apparently resold them to Iran. The devices pack up to 2,000 lbs. of TNT; when a ship hits the mine, the spikes release acid that detonates the charge...
...handmade nails. A major deviation: the builders substituted steel rope for the hypozomata, the two lengths of twisted flax rope that ran from stem to stern to help hold the trireme together. Says Coates of the ancient mariners: "Oh, they were very, very good indeed. The design was driven to the limit. It was built for speed...