Word: hovered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current naval operations involve two American aircraft-carrier groups and one battleship group (19 ships in all) that will be stationed in Caribbean and Pacific waters near Nicaragua during the next several weeks. What makes this unique is that for the first time in recent years the ships will hover off the coast of a particular Latin American nation. But there have indeed been past U.S. exercises in the Caribbean on a comparable scale...
...jets in some pleasant place where the dress code calls for swimsuits instead of straitjackets. For the director has obviously suffered a close encounter with paranoia in the past year or so. First of all, visions of the military-industrial complex seem to have caused a humongous helicopter to hover over his head. Loaded to the rotor blades with heavy artillery and the latest in supersnooping devices, the whirling bird is intended to attack such segments of the U.S. civilian population as happen to get unruly-though in these placid times the film makers are hard-pressed to find...
...price from $9 million to $17 million per chopper (more than an F-16 fighter) and even the Army balked at paying the builder, Hughes Helicopters. The Apache also has a characteristic that its pilots find disconcerting. To fire its laser-guided missile the AH-64 has to hover motionless in the open for up to 30 seconds, a difficult and dangerous business...
...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...
...nation's weak and troubled economy, the bond market's sudden jitters could not have come at a worse time Interest rates have dropped dramatically since last summer, when even the highest grade corporate bonds yielded close to 14%. But triple-A corporate bond yields still hover above 11%, and lower rated issues provide yields substantially higher Those are levels that many economists feel are far too high for sustained economic recovery...