Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consortium. That might strengthen Airbus as a Boeing competitor-if the British are allowed in. But the French threaten to freeze them out if Britain goes ahead with the Boeing deal. While it must find some other builder for its wings, Boeing can rejoice in having emerged from the dogfight with $1 billion-plus in orders-enough to assure the 757 a zooming sales takeoff...
...dogfight over a landing system
...equipment for the world. Australia and the U.S., plus France, Germany and Britain, had all had competing designs. By last week, when technical experts from more than 60 countries gathered in Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic funnel is created by two narrow radio beams-one sweeping horizontally, the other vertically. From the varying time intervals between the aircraft's interception...
...until Saturday's smooth, authoritative row, you would have needed a scorecard and then some to unscramble the dogfight for varsity berths among the top 16. A perplexed Higginson tried mixing various combinations for his defending Eastern Spring bout. But the filet mignon of lightweight crews kept on coming out of the Newell oven like an Elsie-Burger, losing to Rutgers while just edging MIT at the wire...
With Halas in left, right field looks like a three-way dogfight between the same combatants as last year--strong-hitter Charlie Santos-Buch (.313), lefty Billy Blood (.269) and some kinda fleet-footed Bobby Jenkins (.320). Football retread Brian Buckley could bag his designated hitter chores to do some outfielding...