Word: projected
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...causes around the country. Over my three years at the Law School I attended many seminars organized by the public interest placement department. I probably never would have heard of D.N.A. if it were not for Ron; I certainly would not have managed to find the funding for the project I wanted to pursue here if Ron had not been at Harvard...
...partnership would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Sukhoi, the Soviet maker of military planes, and Gulfstream, the most prestigious name in U.S. corporate jets, are making tentative plans to build a supersonic business aircraft. In a $1 billion project, the two manufacturers hope to produce a jet that will fly at 1,500 m.p.h., twice the speed of sound, and carry as many as 20 passengers over a range of more than 5,600 miles. The plane would sell for about $50 million...
...project is still in the design stage and faces abundant obstacles, including concerns about the effect of sonic booms on the environment and the licensing of advanced U.S. technology to the Soviets. But the partners plan to have detailed designs ready within a few weeks and hope to fly the plane by 1995. Sukhoi will have prime responsibility for the airframe; Gulfstream will concentrate on electronics and cockpit design; and Rolls-Royce has been enlisted to help design the plane's engines...
...sharply increased funding to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which sponsors almost all of the world's drug-abuse research. In the past year NIDA's medications and basic-research budget jumped 50%, to $75 million, and Congress promises similar increases in the future. "It's the Manhattan Project for chemists in the war on drugs," declares Duncan Taylor, a senior researcher at Bristol-Myers...
CREDIT: SOURCE: DEFENSE BUDGET PROJECT (NATO ESTIMATES)/TIME CHART BY CYNTHIA DAVIS...