Word: jettison
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Chastened by failures and feuds, struggling to fathom the boom-and-borrow Reagan years, economists jettison rigid formulas and move toward a more pragmatic philosophy...
Tower insisted through aides last week that he was ready to jettison unnecessary weapons and reform Pentagon procurement, but only if Congress would quit meddling with hundreds of weapons and research projects each year. Yet unless Bush can find someone willing to serve as deputy, Tower may never get a chance to put his good intentions to work...
...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...