Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in the novel fuel has been rekindled by news that the Soviets have conducted a successful test flight of a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet modified to burn a mixture of liquid hydrogen and natural gas. The three- engine jet, which lifted off near Moscow and flew for 21 minutes, was the first aircraft to use the fuel in takeoff. Says Senator Spark Matsunaga, a Hawaii Democrat and a leading advocate of a U.S. hydrogen-fuel research program: "It appears that the Soviets have stolen a technological march...
...code words and computer keystrokes later, and $19.7 ( million slid with the smoothness of sipping bourbon from Brown-Forman's account, through the New York computers of Chase Manhattan Bank and into the account of "Walter Newman" at Vienna's Focobank. At 9:34, an additional $25 million flew from the ledgers of United Airlines to Citibank for relay to the account of "GTL Industries" at Creditanstalt...
Operating on a more limited scale under a 1986 antidrug law, the Navy and Air Force flew 16,300 hours in surveillance flights last year. The Navy devoted 2,500 ship-days of patrolling with Coast Guard officers aboard to make drug arrests. Military interception gear and intelligence were shared with civilian agencies. The cost: $67 million...
...after surveying the prospects, Kurz, who has prospered by importing Cats into his home country, flew back to Europe without telling Landesman or many of his other collaborators that he had ordered a closing notice to be put up at the theater. According to investors, Kurz thereby saved an estimated $150,000 to $175,000, the difference between another week's operating costs and the projected box-office income. He was really prompted, however, by what usually determines the fate of unfavorably reviewed shows: he had run out of money. To have any hope of turning things around, he needed...
...support staff worker flew to Boston in the morning from a vacation in Florida, was picked up by a volunteer at Logan Airport, voted and flew back to Florida...