Word: lurchings
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...shuttle, the two men are spending hours piloting a Boeing 707 to get the feel of a massive aircraft. They fly a nimble Gulfstream II outfitted with thrust reversers and side-force generators, to practice tricky touchdowns. They pilot a jet trainer adjusted to drop with a sudden lurch. The two pilots have also flown mission after mission in a simulator so realistic that three-dimensional views of space and the earth are flashed in the cockpit windows. While testing the pilots, the planners make sure what ever can go wrong does go wrong...
NICARAGUA. Though it sent tremors through the rest of the region, the Sandinista-led revolution has brought a measure of uneasy stability at home. The collective Sandinista leadership, whose ranks include a number of self-proclaimed Marxists, has so far avoided the radical lurch to the left that its critics feared. The revolution that toppled Somoza was followed by no mass executions...
...England Conservatory of Music, parcels out the blame in three directions. The musicians' union, or at least the union mentality of the players, has fostered a grudging, clock-watching approach to rehearsing and performing, he says; jet-age music directors have left their orchestras in an artistic lurch while pursuing second and third careers elsewhere; managements and boards of trustees have run the show with the box office uppermost in their minds. "Out of sheer ignorance or arrogance, many boards have time and again made lamentable decisions," argues Schuller. "We should have obligatory training courses for prospective trustees...
...result is a continuous and inefficient scramble for scarce resources, as planners lurch uncertainly from one high-priority project to the next. One such enterprise is the 2,000-mile-long Baikal-Amur Mainline railway across Siberia. This has become an engineer's nightmare, as any study would have shown. Huge stretches freeze solid in the winter and then become quagmires during summer...
Welcome to the company of frustrated Boston sports fans. Maybe you who will be here for but a short while will prove capable of resisting the discrete charm of the city's professional athletic assemblages, which have shown an unparalleled ability to lurch from crisis to crisis in a manner reminiscent of the country's foreign policy makers. More likely, you, too, will fall prey to the lure of the Green Monster and the Sirens of Swat...