Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although the manufacturer of the $1.5 million inerting units used in some military planes claims that simpler civilian versions would cost just $80,000 per plane. Some inerting gases, however, are potentially lethal: they reduce one danger to passengers but increase another. Cautioned Boeing's chief fuel-system engineer, Ivor Thomas: "We would much prefer to be slow and careful and correct than to rush into something where we find six months later it was the wrong thing...
...Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments to the cartel through Antigua, Panama and Colombia. U.S. investigators contend that the Bird dynasty--the current Prime Minister is Vere's son Lester--continues to look the other way as traffickers operate. Another son, Ivor Bird, was convicted last year of trying to smuggle 27 lbs. of cocaine onto the island. He paid a $20,000 fine and served no jail time...
Frederick Ivor-Campbell Warren, Rhode Island...