Word: farness
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Verification of an accord limiting strategic weapons (START) will be even more challenging. The INF category is comparatively simple to check. Since all missiles of a given type are to be destroyed, any such weapon spotted later would be in obvious violation. START will be far more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found...
...cockpit, however, Haynes was describing a far more dangerous situation to regional air-traffic controllers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. One minute after the explosion, he radioed that his craft had developed "complete hydraulic failure." That meant the crew could no longer control the rudder, elevators, wing flaps and ailerons that steer the jet. Too massive to be manually manipulated, these control surfaces are normally powered by fluid pumped by pressure from the jet engines through a series of stainless-steel tubes that snake throughout the aircraft. Since each of the plane's three redundant hydraulic systems is powered...
...far, we've been able to cope with the chilled water plant and MATEP [the Medical Area Total Energy Plant]," said Zeckhauser. "It gets harder as the week goes on, but I haven't heard any discussion [about closing down]," she said...
Environmental experts said that the current heat wave is far less damaging than last summer's. Although two heat-related deaths were reported Wednesday in Quincy, the shorter duration of this heat wave has put less strain on area residents, according to Dr. Peter J. Zuromskis, a clinical advisor to environmental health and safety at University Health Services...
...Marcia L. Spink of the federal Environmental Protection Agency said that although the summer's increased smog had pushed ozone levels above the recommended safety limits in many New England states, Boston thus far has had few violations...