Word: developable
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...aspiring ace sits there--some might say preposterously--in this cavernous hangar in California, in the cockpit of a $13.5 million plane that will do everything but make coleslaw, and listens like a customer, the ejection detonator between his thighs. Northrop Corp. spent nearly $1 billion to develop the F-20, and has been trying for the past two years to persuade Washington to place an order. Unless the F-20 gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon...
Similar expressions of disappointment greeted last week's announcement that a U.S.-Canadian team studying acid rain would recommend a $5 billion program to develop new technology but would do nothing in the meantime to reduce acid emissions from industrial polluters across the border, primarily in the Ohio Valley...
...delicate nuclear balance. Indeed, the initial reductions in strategic weapons would tilt the balance dangerously in the Soviets' favor. In addition, the whole scheme appears to hang on a condition that Gorbachev knows Reagan resists: U.S. abandonment of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, whose goal is to develop a defensive shield against nuclear missiles...
...Lens-related infections like Melzer's have become so commonplace, says Dr. Kenneth Kenyon of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, "it's rare that we don't have a patient in the hospital with one on any given day." In a small number of cases, the wearers develop severe ulcers and scarring of the cornea, the transparent layer of cells stretching over the pupil and the iris, or colored part of the eye. Last year Dr. Donald Doughman of the University of Minnesota treated six patients for serious infections. Some of them may require corneal transplants to restore...
Black programs show up in the defense budget under such cryptic code names as Link Hazel and Dreamland, and receive funds without the ordinary congressional review. Current projects, according to those who have peeked behind the veil, run the gamut from Grass Blade, designed to develop an air-defense system for intercepting low-flying helicopters, to Pilot Fish, aimed at placing transmitters on the ocean floor to pick up sonar data and transmit it to antisubmarine warfare craft. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Donald Hicks says that black budgeting is necessary "because a government as open...