Word: fulcrums
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...message that Brown is delivering...could be an important fulcrum for moving the forces of reform," Anderson said...
Grand Canyon's structure is rewardingly complex, intertwining disparate lives that represent a fair cross section of big-city life. The fulcrum character, discovered in a slightly off-center condition, which will get worse before it gets better, is a mildly depressed, mildly humorous man named Mack (Kevin Kline). The process that will force him to higher consciousness begins when his car breaks down in a bad neighborhood and his life is threatened by a menacing gang, then saved by Simon (Danny Glover), a lonely tow-truck operator. The episode is Mack's first lesson in just how tenuous...
...offer from the Soviet barnstormers is for the well heeled, not the fainthearted. For a mere $10,000, the American air-show buff can now buy a few minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
Amid the desolation of economic collapse, the Soviet aerospace industry has come up with an apparent winner. Flown by a crack new aerobatic team from Moscow, MiG-29 Fulcrum-D jet fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss...
...fulcrum of uncertainty was Milosevic, 49, who rose to power in 1986 on a populist wave of Serbian nationalism and was overwhelmingly confirmed as president -- under the banner of the renamed Socialist Party of Serbia -- in . elections last December. In his efforts to fuel nationalist passions and to silence dissent, Milosevic exercised ironclad control over Serbia's state- owned media, which in turn waged a war of words against secessionist-minded Croatians and Slovenes and the equally nationalistic but more democratic Serbian opposition. On March 9 some 100,000 people crowded into Belgrade's Republic Square to register their opposition...