Word: projections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal so much advanced aviation technology to Japanese defense contractors that they could develop a civilian aircraft industry that would compete with such U.S. producers as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas...
...that would be used in the plane's wings and fuselage. General Dynamics, which first developed the F-16 in 1972, would design and build 35% to 40% of the FSX prototype. Later, U.S. contractors would expect a 30% share in the production of 130 to 170 airplanes. The project would also ensure that the Japanese and U.S. air forces remained fully compatible for the next two decades...
...everyone in the college community agreed that the project was well...
According to the MBTA feasibility study released last week, building a circumferential rail line would cost more than $4.5 billion. Even if approved, the line would not be completed until 2010, said MBTA project coordinator Esther A. Johnson...
...Normally you would expect a new transit line to reduce traffic," said Stephen H. Kaiser, an independent traffic engineer who has opposed the project. "But this would increase traffic because it serves as a stimulation for development...