Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Airlines DC-10 broke free on takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, causing a crash that killed 275. Only three years ago, the worst single-plane accident in history occurred when a bulkhead ruptured on a Japan Air Lines 747, destroying the tail assembly and sending the jumbo jet crashing into a mountain near Tokyo, killing 520. Boeing later admitted that its technicians had incorrectly riveted the bulkhead during a repair job seven years earlier...
...their verbal commitments as well. As a result, banks have grown more and more cautious about lending money to upstart or marginal ventures, and gentler in their handling of delinquent borrowers. Any such rise in agreeability is good for lenders and borrowers alike, because the costs of jumbo lawsuits are simply passed along to the average banking customer...
Basically, what GE did was to painstakingly refine its military designs into a line of passenger-jet engines. Its CF6, currently a popular engine for jumbo jets, was derived from a design initially developed in the late 1960s for the Air Force's giant C-5A cargo plane. The engine was the first to use a high- bypass technique in which a fan, working like a turbocharger in an automobile, pushes large quantities of air past the combustion core to produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with...
...fight hard-fought, close-fought battles, the league is where it should be, administrators say. No matter that Harvard played Miami it would lose by a truck-load of touchdowns. No matter that if Princeton played Oklahoma, its entire team would be carted off the field in a jumbo-sized ambulance...
WORLD: Murder, religious zealotry and regional tension meet in a jumbo...