Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BUFF and one tanker aborted on the ground, victims of a balky generator and an engine "trouble" light that would not go out. A second B-52 had to quit formation; its right front-landing gear would not retract, so it could not keep up. Officially, the Air Force has high confidence in these old planes and the young men who fly them. Despite the much vaunted Soviet air defense network, they believe the B-52s can get through, take out their targets, and perhaps even return to base...
...budget and tax battles will heat up as the Administration digs deeper in its search for yet more cuts. Speaker O'Neill, for one, was willing to await the full Reagan program before shifting the House into high gear. He announced that the House would not even meet this week, explaining blandly: "We don't want to be transgressing on the programs of the President." But the President, and the people, might well harass O'Neill's House if it tarries too long...
Unlike the men's contest at the IAB last night, the closing minutes in this one were not as close as the score would indicate. The lackluster Harvard offense could never gear up to make a serious bid for the victory...
...NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks airlift and sealift capability and even such basics as adequate communications gear. Its command function is mired in a jurisdictional dispute between the Army and the Marine Corps...
...daily) nor the tedium of some speakers dampened the playful mood of most participants. Observed one executive: "Among other things, the forum offers a delightful vacation on the expense account." Many came to the meetings wearing ski togs instead of business suits and parked the rest of their sports gear at the door. Said one who attended: "You'd feel naked here without your skis." At night the almost exclusively male executives and their female companions dressed in the finest evening wear and quaffed magnums of champagne, while Pepe Lienhard's band at Davos' Kongresshaus played tangos...