Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, investigators studying the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 in Washington, D.C., eleven days earlier used the plane's flight recorder data to reconstruct its takeoff. The Boeing 737 took 47 sec. rather than the usual 30 sec. to reach its lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also...
President Reagan and his top aides came into office vowing that linkage would be a cornerstone of their foreign policy. But pressure from American farmers led Reagan to lift the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the invasion of Afghanistan. Pressure from the NATO allies, from pragmatists in the State Department and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not eager for a new arms race, led the Administration to begin negotiations on European missiles in November-and to continue them despite the imposition of martial law in Poland...
Like all new spacecraft, including the U.S. space shuttle Columbia, Ariane has had its problems. Its second trial in May 1980 ended with a mid-air explosion. But since then, it has carried four satellites, two per launch, into high earth orbit. The most recent lift-off came in the predawn darkness on Dec. 20, when Ariane awoke the sleeping jungle with a fusillade of flame and thunder. Last week, in Paris, the eleven-nation European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed what Ariane's customers had been eagerly waiting to hear: that the rocket was ready and able to launch...
With just eight seconds lift, sophomore Bob Ferry sank both ends of a one-and-one to give Harvard a three-point lead and a stranglehold on the game. Green's last-second dunk brought UMass to within one, but the concession basket came too late, and the Crimson celebrated its first road victory of the season...
...says Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, now provides "an umbrella for conducting necessary economic and social reforms." By the same logic, however, an easing of repression would invite open protest. Admits Rakowski, the onetime party liberal who has become a key figure in the regime (see box): "We cannot lift martial law today or tomorrow. We would just return to the situation before Dec. 13, and this modern polonaise-the strike dance-would start anew...