Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water of Long Beach Harbor and flew it at a height of 70 ft. for about a mile. Hughes had announced he would only undertake taxiing tests, but Soderberg says he knew that Hughes' preparations had been too elaborate for mere taxiing. "When I saw that flap come down at 15° I told a photographer next to me, 'You'd better get it,' and it took off as easy as any flying boat I've ever seen...
Perhaps the most disturbing element of last week's flap is that energy has been dissipated, in petty feuds over rank and prerogative, that might more usefully have gone into the formulation of foreign policy. Nothing dramatic has gone wrong, but time has been wasted by a group that tends to dawdle too much over procedure...
...minor flap arose just before the President's speech because Reagan decided to keep the top tax rate on "earned" (essentially wage and salary) income at 50%. That annoyed New York Congressman Jack Kemp, co-author of the tax plan whose main features Reagan adopted: Kemp had thought the rate would come down to 36%. He and others argue that deep tax cuts are especially needed in high brackets to prompt the wealthy to switch money out of tax shelters into more productive savings and investment...
Although his responsbilities brought him into contact with a wide range of issues--including a new charter for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), legislation limiting police authority to search newsrooms, and last summer's flap over Billy Carter--Heymann gradually became identified with the undercover operation in which FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks tried to buy favors from U.S. Congressmen...
Heymann said that in the Billy Carter case--in which the former president's brother was forced to register as a Libyan agent--"we threw our files wide open" and called the matter "a lot of flap over relatively little...