Word: landing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When MIT comes up, it is usually because of the so-called Simplex project, a proposed 27-acre project on university-owned land that would include apartments, a luxury hotel, office and light industrial space. City activists say it will destroy the nearby neighborhood by pushing up property values and increasing traffic problems...
...Over Indianapolis last week, that shortcoming led to disaster. An Air Force pilot, Major Bruce Teagarden, 35, was on a routine flight when his engine went dead at 30,000 ft. Gliding down to Indianapolis Airport through a low cloud cover, Teagarden came in too high to land. Unable to circle to another runway, he tried to steer the plane toward an open field. After dropping below 800 ft., he parachuted to safety...
...years, hitting $207.8 billion in fiscal 1983. It would have been even higher if Congress had not adopted a $98 billion tax increase in 1982, which Reagan grudgingly signed. Moreover, the deficit kept mounting despite the Administration's imaginative revenue- boosting plans, which ranged from the sale of Government land to the increase of user fees for airports, waterways and even Coast Guard services...
Daniel Vilmure '87 is the author of Life in the Land of the Living, a novel published this month by Aflred A. Knopf. This article first appeared in The Crimson last Halloween...
Daniel Vilmure '87, a Tampa resident who transferred to Harvard after two years at Loyola University in New Orleans, has already received resounding critical acclaim for his book, "Life in the Land of the Living...