Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better times, Detroit's new smaller cars might have been runaway successes. Surveys conducted by both Ford and Chrysler show that 80% of new-model buyers are happy with their purchases.. "I love my Ford Escort," says Judy Siotto, a San Francisco medical assistant. "It has lots of room and great pickup on the hills." Adds William Consavage of West Yarmouth, Mass.: "My Plymouth K-car gets good mileage, and I like its looks...
Each year during the weekend before exams, the board shows a pornographic film to relieve the tension of study pressures, Mandell said. "We let off steam here," one student attending "Debbie Does Dallas" said, as his female escort added that "most of the women here do not condone the violence of the sex--we are just curious...
...over the North Atlantic, a giant Soviet TU-95 Bear reconnaissance plane last September zoomed across the invisible line that marks the U.S. defense zone off Iceland. In five minutes, two American F-4 Phantom II interceptors zoomed up from Iceland's Keflavik Airport to draw alongside and escort the trespasser out of the forbidden Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Last week the U.S. Air Force released a remarkable set of pictures of the interception, photographs so sharp that the faces and gestures of the Soviet crewmen were visible as the American Phantoms hung close...
...bowl-shaped antenna carried above Voyager 1's ten-sided body is 12 ft. in diameter. At 825 kg (1,820 lbs.), the whole machine weighs less than a Ford Escort. It moves through frictionless space effortlessly from its initial thrust, sometimes affected by the gravitational pull of planets, but able to correct its course with blasts from small thruster rockets. The most complex cluster of equipment is housed forward near its two TV cameras, and includes an infrared radiometer that measures the heat of planets and spectrometers to analyze composition of the atmosphere. The magnetometers for locating...
Undeniably, Detroit's woes are acute. So far, consumer reaction to its new small cars has been tepid. In October, Chrysler's sales were 6% above a year ago on the strength of its K-cars. But Ford was off 20%, despite the debut of its Escort and Lynx subcompacts, and slipped an additional 8.5% in early November...