Word: phils
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...guided the development of Boeing's last plane, the stakes couldn't be higher. In the early 1990s, Phil Condit was the program manager for the 777 and Alan Mulally was the chief engineer. Now Condit runs the entire company and Mulally is head of commercial airplanes. Over the past three years, Boeing has lurched from one new design to another--only to back off ideas abruptly. One proposal, the sleek and futuristic Sonic Cruiser that Boeing promised would fly faster than other any plane except the Concorde, captured the imagination of the aviation world--but not of the airlines...
...evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in Pakistan's tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed just across the border in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas. --By Phil Zabriskie. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain
...roots, everyone is baffled to learn, are in some Shtetls on the Russian-Polish border. I want to explain that my soul has roots in the poetry that’s created here. But I keep my mouth shut, having concluded that behavior considered normal amongst devotees of Phil Fisher’s English 165: “Joyce, Modernism and Aestheticism” class is considered downright loony by everyone else...
...renew my pledge to return every hello in kind for yet another week. I will not, however, reciprocate any hello addressed to Dave, Phil, Rick, Bill, Mary or any other four letter word that is not Pete. Well, not unless I’m feeling especially lonely or vulnerable...
...Kant’s Ethical Theory,” the only departmental course that fulfills the MR requirement. The real difference between departmental and Core courses is not that one teaches, say, a subject and one teaches an approach to a subject. No, both clearly teach a subject, as Phil 168’s duality and strict subject matter clearly indicate. The difference lies in that one, the Core and the courses that are taught exclusively within its confines, is simply dumbed-down so as not to trouble students who might have no interest in the subject...