Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stumbled, apparently wounded. Kobrzynski sprinted 100 ft. down a grassy hill to help her. At that moment a bullet shattered Meeker's left elbow and hit a rib, a second slammed into the main combustion chamber of the chopper's turbine and a third struck near the fuel tank. "They're aimed shots," Meeker remembers thinking. "In five seconds we'll all be dead...
...will be a gentle setdown near the mouth of a 2,500-mile-long canyon, perhaps the site of a former drainage basin. (Viking II's lander is targeted for an area near the planet's north polar hood, where moisture may still exist.) Instead of jet fuel, which would contaminate Mars with hydrocarbons, the landers' descent rockets are powered by purified hydrazine, a nitrogen-hydrogen compound. This, explains Richard S. Young, chief program scientist for the mission, will cause minimal pollution of the Martian environment...
...course, not all industries shared in the improved second-quarter performance. Steel profits were down 26% from the first quarter, utilities 8%, and aluminum and other nonferrous metal producers 11%. Airlines flew in the red because of high jet-fuel costs and an un-economically low percentage of filled seats. Overall, though, the Citibank study painted a brighter second-quarter earnings picture than many experts had expected. Says Citibank Economist Robert Lewis: "The upturn in earnings is further proof that the economy has begun to bounce back...
...million in the same period this year, inflation has been more than halved (to an annual rate of 10%), and the lira is holding steady. The main reason: tough measures dictated by Carli, including a tight credit policy (interest rates up to 20%), higher taxes and fuel prices, and temporary import restrictions...
...American World Airways seemed, until a few days ago, to have found a most ironic way out of a financial nosedive caused largely by doubled fuel bills. The government of Iran, one of the nations most instrumental in forcing up petroleum prices, had been negotiating to provide the airline with $300 million so that it could pay off restless American creditors and rebuild working capital. Last week irony was followed by intense disappointment; the deal appeared to have fallen through, leaving Pan Am facing another money squeeze...