Word: maffei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Group (JR), the leader in the Japanese development, uses a design that relies on magnets made with superconductors, the extraordinary materials that carry electrical currents without resistance. The West German model, known as the Transrapid and built by a consortium that includes Thyssen Henschel, Messerschmitt, Bolkow-Blohm and Krauss Maffei, uses conventional electromagnets. The West Germans stopped using superconductors in 1979, convinced that the technology was out of reach. Thus, if the Japanese can get their design into marketable shape soon, they could build a lead in the vital field of superconductors and establish a strong grip on the future...
...Alfred Maffei lives down the block from the community center. He is retired and tired, tired of deceptive, middle-of-the-road politicians and the mediocrity they peddle. He neither loves Jimmy Carter, nor admires him very much, but Carter has won him over. "Look," Maffei said after the president finished, there's an old Italian saying: 'You know the devil you got, but you don't know the devil you gonna get.' You know what I mean? Carter will have to do. He knows we can't vote for Reagan...
...offensive line of the Columbus High football team stood shoulder to shoulder with Maffei in the narrow, winding street. Their smooth, helmet-like coifs bobbed several inches above the crowd as they jousted playfully. The young bucks and the slightly older working men and women who stood behind them cared little about Carter's dedication to Social Security or Medicare. In fact, when the presidential entourage emerged into the mid-day sunshine it was Ted Kennedy and not the candidate who received the warmest reception. The most favorite of all New England sons provoked a particularly loud round of cheering...