Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Link's AH-64 Apache helicopter simulator, perhaps the world's most sophisticated, combines mock flight with battle effects so realistic that a visitor needs security clearance to ride it. When a trainee is struck by enemy fire, he actually feels the hit. Indeed, the simulation can be dangerously % realistic. "We had to turn this one down," says Ray McCabe, flight- simulation supervisor at the Army's Fort Bragg. "We had a lot of guys lose teeth or have their nose broken from the impact...
THEY can try to ridicule the Democratic nominee. But personal attacks on Dukakis could backfire. It's all right to mock Bush's rich ubringing, but political suicide to knock Dukakis' "son of Greek immigrants" appeal. Dukakis is a harder target for Republican barbs...
Some cities have added oral exams and simulation exercises. In Corpus Christi, Texas, contenders for the job of police chief had to face interrogation by real reporters at a mock news conference. For many of those cramming for such challenges, major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
...about it that the fellowships advising system at Harvard is just wonderful," says Jonathan L. Feng '88, who was one of five Harvard students to garner a Marshall. Many fellowship winners praise OCS and fellowships tutors in the houses for helping them with their applications and leading them through mock interviews...
...such presence, such personality, such promise as a subject of mild jokes and elevated eyebrows as Raisa Gorbachev. She is the first spouse of a Soviet leader to weigh less than he does, acid tongues have it in Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board of the Culture Fund, the first since Lenin's wife to hold a prominent public position...