Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though his choices may consist, as Garn says, of "no good alternatives," the options previously mulled and culled sound even worse. A plan called "Sea-sitter" envisioned pinioning minimissiles on a fleet of roving seaplanes. Other proposals would have made giant molehills out of mountains: one called for sticking the missiles inside mountains for protection, and another would have placed each missile at a peak's southern foot, thus providing a natural barrier wall, since the Pentagon expects the Soviet CBMs to come gliding in over the North Pole. The Continuous Air Alert Carrier sounds space age; in fact...
...tomorrow will combine a revolutionary diesel engine with other fuel-saving technologies that designers hope will get 75 or more m.p.g. in combined city and highway driving. A test model will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September. At present, U.S. law requires automakers to have a fleet average fuel economy of only 22 m.p.g., which will rise to 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. The VW Rabbit diesel, with 42 m.p.g. city and 56 m.p.g. highway, is the most fuel-efficient car in production now available in the U.S. Several foreign manufacturers produce cars with even better mileage...
...this affords maximum fluidity, as well as plenty of versatility at the hands of an inventive director--which Coe clearly is. For example, while the Third Chorus describes the 'fleet majestical' on its journey from Hampton to the French coast, some ropes and some wooden props held in a V-shape give us the rigging and bow of a rolling and creaking ship. The instant the words proceed to the king's 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' the wooden structures turn into a quartet of ladders to enable the soldiers to scale the wall of Harfleur...
...small private plane crashed into a commercial jet over San Diego in 1978. The risk of similar mishaps-25 occurred in 1979 (the latest year tabulated) with the loss of 34 lives-could become greater in the future. Today there are about 220,000 aircraft in the U.S. fleet. In the next decade, Helms estimates, 100,000 more planes will be crisscrossing the once spacious U.S. skies...
Into that frigid cavern, and 328 smaller warehouses and depositories around the country, the Department of Agriculture each week deposits 45 million lbs. of unwanted butter, cheese and nonfat dry milk. The accumulating hoard, which now totals 800,000 tons, or enough to fill a fleet of supertankers, is the result of the U.S. Government's 32-year-old dairy-price-support program. How to keep the stockpile from swelling even larger is now giving the Reagan Administration something approaching collective indigestion...