Word: forwardness
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Indeed it does. The forward line of defense will consist of five or six "perimeter acquisition radar sites" (PARS) along the northern U.S. border to identify and track incoming ICBMs. The radar sites will send information back to missile-site radar (MSR) equipment at 14 or so areas where long-range Spartan missiles will be poised to intercept enemy vehicles as much as 400 miles from their targets. Each Spartan battery will protect an elliptical area of the nation-in Pentagonese, a "footprint." Present plans call for batteries in each of the overlapping footprints, others in Alaska and Hawaii...
Seats next to emergency exits are already required to fold forward to make the exits reachable. After investigating 18 survivable accidents, however, the FAA discovered that few passengers were aware of the fold-down procedure. From now on, areas adjacent to emergency exits will be kept completely clear of seats. The FAA estimates that total seat space will be reduced 4% by this change, and by another order that clear space must also be provided for stewardesses to station themselves beside the doors. The cost, say the airlines, may be as much as $700,000,000 less in passenger revenue...
...Looking forward to his 83rd birth day next month - and backward on a 65-year career in merchandising - the chairman of the U.S.'s largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice...
...States stated the objective of the Center to be the dispensation of justice with maximum effectiveness and minimum waste by means of a thorough scientific study of judicial administration and through programs of continuing education for judges and the training of court personnel. This will be a great step forward. The Center will, we hope, serve both to assist in seeking solutions to problems of administration and also in generating a better understanding of the necessity of such solutions...
...forward line was uninspired and took nowhere near the number of shots called for by the conditions. The hard-hitting Jumbos captured most of Harvard's fullback kicks and kept the ball in Crimson territory for unexpectedly long stretches...