Word: harpoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venerable battlewagon is still awesome. Her 16-in. guns can hurl shells that weigh 2,700 Ibs. each (the weight of a Chevrolet) as far as 23 miles. She has been fitted with Toma hawk and Harpoon missiles, some with nuclear warheads; the Toma hawk can hit targets 1 ,500 miles away...
Some family reunions turn into harpoon fests. That is precisely what happens in this seriocomic British play that is having its U.S. premiere under the auspices of the Philadelphia Drama Guild at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater. All the characters are moving targets, and the barbs are fast, furious and maliciously funny. Bernard (Joseph Maher), the father and pivotal figure of the play, is in a double state of decline: carking middle age and advancing penury...
...desire for Peking's cooperation in the anti-Soviet propaganda drive, provided an opportunity for these advisers to convince the President that he should deny Taiwan's request for the more sophisticated plane. To placate Taiwan's supporters, conspicuously Reagan himself, the memo also suggested selling Harpoon missiles and rescue helicopters to the Taipei government. Reagan approved the mission last Thursday at a meeting of his top national security advisers. The major proponent of selling advanced jets to Taiwan, Richard Allen, was no longer sitting in the National Security Adviser's chair to offer objections...
...aircraft last year, or about 37% of the firm's $6.1 billion in revenues. Analysts expect the commercial share of sales to shrink due to slowing air traffic and a rising backlog of government orders. The company's military hardware includes Harpoon antiship missiles and F-15 Eagle jet fighters. But McDonnell Douglas will not be dropping out of commercial aviation. It has signed a memo of understanding with Fokker aircraft of The Netherlands to study the possibility of a new 150-passenger jet that would compete with...
...delegates also agreed to outlaw "cold" (or nonexplosive) harpoons on minke whales, starting with the 1982-83 season. Conservationists claim these weapons prolong the animal's final agony, but the Japanese insist that faster-killing grenade-tipped harpoons damage too much of the flesh and are dangerous to the hunters. The decision gives them time to develop a less damaging, safer explosive harpoon...