Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most vital ingredient in Boeing's success is its willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
...when the flight would have been back in the air winging toward Tel Aviv. Said George Churchill-Coleman, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch: "It is highly likely that an explosion from a device of this type would have resulted in the loss of the aircraft, a 747 jumbo, and the 400 passengers and crew." British police believe the pregnant woman might have been duped into unknowingly carrying the bomb by her lover, Nezar Hindawi, 35, who was arrested Friday evening by Scotland Yard...
...those 10 Crimson runs, eight were the direct result of Jumbo errors and walks. Three errors and 13 walks to be precise...
After Harvard's first three batters reached base, freshman center fielder Elizabeth Crowley picked up an RBI with a single off Tufts pitcher Tami Geanes. Jumbo left fielder Kathy Durga bungled the pick-up, bringing home the Crimson's second...
...comes to Soldiers Field for a 1 p.m. start tomorrow. The batswomen then face the University of Maine in a Sunday afternoon twin-bill...Dickerman scattered eight hits over seven innings, striking out two while walking three...Mary Baldauf, Lisa Rowning and Mary Sheehan each walked twice for Harvard...Jumbo first baseman Kris Herman walloped a mammoth home run in the second for Tufts first tally...