Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disadvantage against Argentina's faster Mirage III-EAs. But in the Falklands, the Mirages have to sacrifice speed as, heavily loaded, they come in low to try to get under the radar. The Harrier fights best low and slow. With its maneuverability, it can stop in midair, hover, veer off sharply in new directions and land on almost any flat surface. Armed with 1,000-lb. cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, the Sea Harrier has an advanced avionics and radar system that allows...
...worms, but other oddities: several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists aboard the expedition's mother ship, Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Among these unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site). Researchers believe the vent fish may be the first vertebrate discovered whose existence does not ultimately depend upon sunlight...
...part-time jobs. That is true even though tuition and other expenses for a typical school year have risen to $11,700 at M.I.T. or $9,100 for nonresident students at state universities like Michigan. Scholastic Aptitude Test math scores for successful candidates at the more competitive schools hover at lofty averages: 760 and 687 out of 800 at Caltech and Rensselaer, respectively, which put those candidates in the top percentiles of all who take the tests...
...pictures were somewhat fuzzy and the hues none too bright. But no one was complaining. The images presented remarkable, virtually unprecedented views of the nearest thing to an extraterrestrial hothouse: the scorching surface of Venus, where temperatures hover around 900° F, and atmospheric pressures are 90 times as heavy as those on earth...
...spending. Recovery, though, will be painfully slow. "We may just have a long, flat bottom with very little growth," said Feldstein, adding wryly, "Only professional economists will know that the recession is over." Even by year's end, according to the board's forecast, unemployment will still hover at 8.7%. Growth in the gross national product is expected to accelerate gradually from 1.8% this year to 3.9% in 1983, a pace that would be only about half as strong as after other postwar recessions. Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, warned that the economy may stall...