Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, senators killed an amendment by Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., to jettison most of the money-losing parts of the bill, saving $1.8 billion over three years, and earmark' the money to help pay for a sweeping drug bill that is still being written...
...oxygen tank, a parachute and an inflatable raft. In addition, a new emergency escape system was designed to give the astronauts a chance to leave the orbiter quickly in the event of a "benign disaster" after the boosters had fallen away. In such a crisis, the crew would jettison the huge external fuel tank and stabilize the winged orbiter into a downward glide. Then, when the craft descended to an altitude of about 30,000 ft., the astronauts would set off explosive bolts, blowing a newly installed hatch off the ship, and extend the 12-ft. telescoping escape pole, which...
...than winning the Gran Premio in 1964. This changed in the wake of '68, when art-student radicals occupied the Accademia di Belli Arti, in protest against the commodification of culture (how many of them, one wonders, are art dealers today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system and turn itself into a noncompetitive symposium built around a historical or theme show in the Italian pavilion. Racked by ideological discord and enfeebled by the organizational skills of Italian intellectuals, the Biennale went into a tailspin for a number of years...
...sinking of the Joshan followed within minutes. Then the action shifted farther north, near the Strait of Hormuz. There, repeated hostile actions by Iran forced the U.S. to jettison its plan to limit Iranian ship losses to a single vessel. When two Iranian frigates, the Sahand and the Sabalan, fired on American reconnaissance aircraft, U.S. warships went after them. A Harpoon missile launched by the U.S. destroyer Joseph Strauss hit the Sahand. The missile, delivered from a distance of 20 miles, blew a hole in the Iranian vessel's hull. An F-14 Tomcat from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise...
...vehicle to promote their pet projects. Speaking last week at a committee hearing, Treasury Secretary James Baker praised Congress for being willing to compromise on sweeping issues such as what to do in response to unfair foreign trade practices. But Baker complained pointedly about the lack of "willingness to jettison amendments that sometimes are supported by only one member." In the same vein, Representative Robert Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat, castigated his colleagues: "A trade bill should be used to set trade policy, not provide some kind of discount Casbah for special interests...