Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radioactive garbage. Now that may actually happen to the Government's nuclear-bomb plant at Rocky Flats, near Boulder. Between next March and May, it will reach a limit set by state law on how much waste it can store on site. At that point, Governor Roy Romer could order it shut, making Rocky Flats the first atomic facility to be closed because it is unable to dispose of its trash...
Clearly, Gorbachev's daunting tasks at home have been complicated immeasurably by the Armenian disaster. And even if he should succeed in swiftly bringing order out of the chaos, the ironic fact will remain that this Soviet leader appears more popular abroad than he is at home...
...affirmed after the P.N.C. meeting in Algeria. "The P.N.C. decisions," said Arafat's deputy Abu Iyad on Nov. 28, "are a refinement of the . . . position adopted in the phase program 14 years ago. The ((P.N.C.)) session was meant to revitalize this program and to create a mechanism in order to get it moving...
Airlines using hub-and-spoke route patterns have made Boeing's medium-range 737, which has a passenger capacity of 146, the best-selling airliner in history. More than 1,600 are now flown by 141 airlines, and 600 more are on order at a base price of $20 million each. For longer and more heavily traveled routes, carriers are buying twin-engine 757s, which cost about $40 million and carry as many as 220 passengers, and the larger 767s ($58 million). The big-money behemoth of the line is Boeing's 747 jumbo jet ($135 million), for which...
AIRBUS. The 18-year-old European aerospace consortium still loses money on every plane it sells, but its British, French, West German and Spanish co- owners have been willing to subsidize costs in order to develop a robust European aircraft industry. Airbus is eclipsing Douglas as the world's second largest jetmaker. One reason: the manufacturer outfits its jet cockpits with advanced flight-control systems that are not yet available on most U.S.-made , airliners. By constantly monitoring flight conditions, the Airbus onboard computers help cut maintenance and fuel costs...