Word: older
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What about the sleek B-2? Ironically, while the B-2 performed well, the success of older aircraft may make it harder for the services to bring costly new planes on line. In the coming decades, the Pentagon plans to spend $300 billion on three new classes of warplanes, including $62.2 billion for a fleet of 339 F-22 fighters. But if U.S. air forces are so good, the thinking goes, why upgrade...
...wasn't just older, cheaper planes that won over Kosovo. The real star of the show was a new but very cheap bomb. While the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a pretty low-tech weapon, its satellite-guided tail fins let a plane at any altitude drop it right on target through clouds, smoke or darkness. At about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke...
Over the past three years, Goff says he hasfound a home within the Afro-American studiesdepartment, where he has served as a researchfellow for the affiliated DuBois Institute, andcoordinated a mentor program which pairs older andyounger students within the concentration...
...addition, Harvard has planned--and in some cases begun--the renovation of older buildings and the construction of new facilities. The Holyoke Center, for example, was renovated for $1 million this spring. The result? Doors...
Internationally, however, Harvard's position overshadows other American universities and even the local universities, many of which venerate traditions centuries older than Harvard...