Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning battle stations as if it were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this bitter dispute could determine not only what the U.S. Navy will look...
...addition, Perkins argues, Harvard boasts a much more diverse program than MIT. Two of the Harvard graduate faculty are Marxists whereas, in Perkins' view, MIT has "very few" radical economists on its faculty. Perkins added that he believes MIT focuses on a narrow neoclassical interpretation of economics, while Harvard tried to "see the limitations of that particular theory...
...State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter was able to announce that "the overall tone was good" and that there had been "some movement on all the fundamental" SALT issues. During several hours of private talks in which Vance and Gromyko were joined only by their interpreters, the two managed to narrow disagreements on the definition of new missile types and on transferring technology, although little progress was made on the difficult Backfire issue. As expected, Vance and Gromyko agreed to meet for another round of SALT talks...
Microwave landing systems are already used by the military, and will eventually replace the narrow-beam instrument landing devices employed at commercial airports with ones that provide a much larger and more flexible landing approach area (see diagram). Planes under instrument landing control are now brought through the approach area to the runway one at a time in a long single file, like a string of elephants entering a circus arena. The MLS lets planes head into what is, in effect, a huge electronic funnel whose gaping mouth is 80° wide and 20° high (the ILS glide path...
...Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic funnel is created by two narrow radio beams-one sweeping horizontally, the other vertically. From the varying time intervals between the aircraft's interception of these rapid back-and-forth sweeps, an on-board computer can determine precisely where the plane is in the funnel, how steeply it is descending...