Word: dogfighter
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...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...
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...
...race in today's action will be the dogfight in the 100-yd. backstroke, with Harvard's Pyle and Seelen battling Princeton's DeCosse and Specht for second place in a race that will most likely go to navy's Mark Heinrich. The Middie has been timed at 52.7 already this year, a full second faster than the rest of the competition...
Assuming that the top six teams in Division One are set (B.U., Cornell, Clarkson, B.C., Brown and UNH), the dogfight for the last two spots is basically between four teams: Harvard (9-8-0), RPI (8-8-0), Providence (9-9-1), and Dartmouth (9-10-0). Northestern and Vermont both have an outside chance, but their schedules seem much too hard...