Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only customers for Western weapons. Other developing countries, including Turkey and Venezuela, are also eager buyers. In addition, the major arms-exporting nations sell about half their lethal wares to industrial powers like themselves. The U.S., for example, imports Beretta light machine guns from Italy and sells Phantom jet fighters to West Germany...
Marriage Revealed. Umberto Agnelli, 39, tough-minded managing director of Italy's largest private industrial empire, Fiat automakers, and Princess Allegra Caracciolo, 28, occasional international jet-setter; he for the second time, she for the first; near Turin...
...accounts for a large portion of the increase, at least $250 million (and a projected $5-10 billion over the next decade) is earmarked for the Pentagon's new family of weapons. These weapons include a larger ther-monuclear warhead for more accurate intercontinental missiles, mobile land-based missiles, jet-powered missiles that can be launched from either submarines or airplanes, maneuverable missile warheads that can home in on a target, and smaller ballistic-missile submarines...
...jet is not operating at full capacity presently (although its engines are maintained at zero airtime, which means they are like new). A DC 8 is most economical when it flies 300 hours a month, and it is now in the air less than 100 hours permonth...
...result, Freelandia can schedule three times its current number of trips without increasing costs, and the membership could triple without anyone being bumped from flights. Also jet fuel prices increased 345 percent last year, the Cost of Living Council reported, so either more people have to join to offset fuel cost, or the price of Freelandia's airshares (tickets) will...