Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...
...impact, aerospace profits remain low: 3.1% of sales against 5.5% for all U.S. manufacturers. One reason: in a little-noted change of vast consequence, cost-conscious Robert McNamara has switched Pentagon buying away from lax, cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price, incentive awards. Increasingly, defense contractors must sharpen both their engineering and their bids to win business. Efficient operators who trim costs or beat delivery schedules are rewarded with higher profits; fumblers are being winnowed out. Says Northrop Chairman Tom Jones: "It's a sporty course...
...past and present have chosen to do. He could easily have read the reports filed by past Fellows at the end of their stay at Harvard. If he had done so, he would have discovered the diversity in courses and experiences which have marked the Nieman program's impact on each participant. For Tony Lewis, there has also been a Tom Wicker of the same paper, whose experience and advice involved sampling widely of all Harvard has to offer. It is simply a misstatement of fact to say that "most of the Fellows use Harvard as a trade school...
...apparently disagreed with Jeannie. "She is equally positive that her sister's little six-foot boy Melvin had nothing to do with it. When one thinks of the 39 stab wounds sustained by Jacques, in addition to having a crystal flamingo broken over his head and the impact of a Coke bottle which fractured his skull, it is difficult to imagine a stranger applying himself with such diligence. Either way, the lawyers are going to cost half a million. Jacques Mossier may be in the awkward position of paying to spring his betrayers...
...route to Bengazi, an oil-company air bus comes down in a sandstorm with 14 men aboard. Two are dead on impact. More will die during the bitter struggle for survival that celebrates, once again, the indomitability of the human spirit. But Phoenix regards its heroes with refreshing cynicism. In his best role of recent years, James Stewart plays the stubborn, not-very-bright bush pilot, a "back number" who demonstrates leadership by guarding the water rations. "Little men with slide rules and computers are going to inherit the earth," he grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger...