Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ally with whom Frank did break is Dukakis himself, who offered to make him secretary of transportation in 1974. Frank claims that the far-reaching social programs started under Francis W. Sargent, Dukakis's predecessor, were approved with the understanding that taxes would be raised in 1975 to pay fog them. Campaigning with the slogan of "No new taxes," Dukakis delayed a tax increase for 11 months in 1975, despite a $700 million deficit. The governor slashed human services to balance the budget, and has run a pro-business, austerity-minded administration. Frank notes, "Unlike White, Dukakis went...
...inferno had occurred on Los Rodeos' single, fog-shrouded airstrip. Two 231-ft.-long Boeing 747 jumbo jets, each weighing some 700,000 Ibs., had collided?incredibly?on the ground. Taking off down a runway visible for less than a sixth of its length, KLM 4805 (the Rhine River) smashed into Pan American 1736 (the Clipper Victor), taxiing toward the same takeoff point. Roaring at full power, the KLM's hot engines (2000° F.) and massive landing gear crunched through the Pan Am's fuselage with such impact and explosive fire that aluminum and steel parts of both planes were...
...blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only about 475 ft. away from its safe exit when all hell broke loose. Captain Grubbs and First Officer Bragg saw lights blurred by fog on the runway ahead of them. They thought the lights were stationary. But the glows loomed larger. They were moving...
...Europe, particularly in France, Great Britain, West Germany and the other industrialized countries, airline technology is fully as sophisticated as it is in the U.S., and in some aspects the Europeans are more advanced. France, for example, uses a battery of jet engines to blast away fog from Paris' two international airports?De Gaulle and Orly. That technique has not been adopted in the U.S. largely because of the noise and the pollution it creates. Using their advanced instrument landing systems, the French and the British airlines operate under conditions that would shut down most American airports...
...ANGELES: Pilots complain about the L.A. Airport's nightly noise-abatement procedures, which require planes to land and take off over the ocean, where visibility is often obscured by fog banks. Observes one veteran pilot: "L.A. Airport is a disaster waiting to happen." Though the airport has cut back on over-ocean landings and installed new instrument-landing systems for runway approaches, some pilots still fear that they may set down in the water...