Word: fleetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Expediency is another factor; with the shuttle fleet vulnerable, NASA cannot afford to spend 10 years developing a space plane, as it had planned to before February. The agency would like to test a new vehicle...
...There are some jobs only the shuttle can do. Its ability to carry large payloads into space will keep the remaining fleet in operation at least until the space station is completed. And its ability to bring large payloads back to Earth is unique. But the space shuttle, while magnificently brawny and brilliantly engineered, emerged from a series of compromises and budget cuts dating back to the Nixon Administration. The most critical mistake: designing a spaceship to fly horizontally like an airplane but launching it vertically like a rocket. That one decision saved $5 billion in the 1970s...
...full extent of the damage is unknown; U.S. soldiers barred journalists from the site. The main road leading to the compound was blocked by Hummers and APCs. Two Blackhawk helicopters circled the site overhead. A few ambulances were allowed into the area immediately after the blast, but when a fleet of 10 ambulances arrived an hour later, they were waved back...
...eighth century Indonesian schooner depicted at Borobudur is now under sail in the Indian Ocean, on its way to Africa, manned by a multinational crew. The 19-meter-long ship is retracing the route of its ancient prototypes, which are believed to have formed the earliest transoceanic sailing fleet in history...
...anonymous screen grab of his 15-year-old daughter in the nude. Across the pond, the Sextown Sniper is terrorizing a California municipality set up under legal loopholes as a haven for the porn industry. Simultaneously, sleazy Clint Smoker, who writes a misogynistic column called Yellow Dog for a Fleet Street tabloid of dazzling tastelessness, is hurtling across several plotlines toward a romantic rendezvous with violent potential. What holds all this together? Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis...