Word: projected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern city of Bangalore, the two exist side by side: women collect tree branches for firewood, while a short distance away, some of India's brightest technicians hunch over an IBM 3090 mainframe computer to design cross sections for the light combat aircraft. The aim of the LCA project is to develop India's own fighter aircraft at a low cost and, potentially, to export the plane to other countries...
...office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...
...reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed to the efficient cooperation among firms in Britain, Canada and the U.S., all of whom contributed essential parts to the larger whole...
...some men, panicked by loss of control over their previously cowered partners, become even more violent after separation. "It's extremely rare that you read about a man who has beaten a woman to death while she's living with him," says Ellen Pence of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minn. "It's when she leaves him that he kills...
Sometimes, though, even the best efforts are not enough. If a woman "truly needs an order because a man is going to kill her, then a restraining order really isn't going to do anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that...