Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowly. For the second quarter, real G.N.P. squeezed out a gain at an annual rate of 1.9%. That ballooned to 13.2% in the third quarter, as businessmen at last cleaned out swollen inventories and began filling orders from new production. The sell-off gave the economy a one-shot lift; the rate of production growth is widely expected to drop back to about 5% in the current quarter-an anticipated development and no cause for alarm...
...major overhaul, and the aim is to mount some 60 missions a year. The first of the 122-ft.-long, delta-winged ships now being assembled at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Calif., is about the size of a conventional DC-9 passenger jet, but double the weight. It will lift a pay load of 65,000 Ibs. in a cavernous cargo bay big enough to hold two of the fighter planes that flew from the decks of World War II aircraft carriers. This capacity, and the fact that the shuttle is reusable, should make the orbiter quite economical by space...
Dead Stick. Launching the shuttle should be relatively easy. Fastened piggyback style to two 149-ft. boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral. After separation, the solid fuel boosters will be parachuted back into the ocean, to be picked up and reused. The liquid-propellant tank, jettisoned after sending the shuttle into orbit, will not be reused...
...Delayed Lift-Off. To support its theory, the I.E.S. decided to build and fly its own version of a Nazca balloon. The result was an odd contraption called Condor I, with an 88-ft.-high envelope made from fabric that closely resembles materials recovered from Nazca gravesites. The balloon's lines and fastenings were made from native fibers; the boat-shaped gondola was woven from totora reeds picked by Indians from Peru's 2.4-mile-high Lake Titicaca...
...Crimson's sole win over Hofstra was a show stopping clash in which Jim Corcoran, trailing 2-1, racked up a pin with only two seconds lift in the match...