Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clip is the brainchild of Michel Jordi, 39, a former manufacturer of watch straps from tiny Grenchen, Switzerland. He and Heinz Peter Barandun, a former bank executive, along with two others, privately financed the project and started production only six months later. "We couldn't have done it if we had been a large company," says Barandun, now Le Clip chairman. "As a small group, we saw its potential and just went ahead...
ORCA developed its plan for the release in consultation with the federal Marine Mammal Commission. Last fall the project got under way. Alling taped underwater sounds at the Georgia site to familiarize the dolphins with their new habitat. To deprogram them, O'Barry simply reversed normal training procedures. Instead of rewarding the dolphins when they performed, he would turn his back. To ease their transition to catching moving fish for food, the team clipped the tails off mullet to slow them down...
...stern a boastful curve and her sides bristled with 170 oars. The launching two weeks ago of the trireme,* a replica of the fabled warship that helped the Athenian navy dominate the Mediterranean during the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., was the culmination of a five-year project. As the ship's oars plunged into the wine- dark waters off the island of Poros, John Morrison, the retired Cambridge classics don who helped lead the effort, sat on deck and exulted, "Can you feel the push...
...reportedly cruised up to 18 hours at a steady 7 to 8 knots. Using scale models, British and Greek scientists calculate that fully outfitted boats could have attained a top speed of almost 10 knots. "Of course," says Lieut. Commander Spyros Platis, the Greek navy's supervisor on the project, "this would be at the peak of the oarsmen's output, which couldn't last for more than a minute...
...doesn't leave it at that, though. There are plenty of other battles and causes he's ready and willing to sign on with. Last Friday in New York City, for instance, the performed in a benefit show for medical aid to Nicaragua. And the proceeds of a recent project, an LP entitled Wake Up, will go the miner's defense campaign in England...