Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worldwide market for airliners between now and the year 2001 is expected to be an astronomical $280 billion. To snare a hefty share of it, aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are scrambling to roll out new jets that are bigger, quieter and more fuel efficient...
...Douglas has demonstrated for customers for the first time. The plane's engine, built by General Electric, contains jet turbines that drive two counter- rotating sets of stubby propeller blades. The new engine, to be put in use by 1992, is as powerful as a conventional jet, but is quieter and saves as much as 40% on fuel consumption...
Highlights of the two encores included a banner-shaking rendition of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" and, on a quieter note, another acoustic Police song, "Message In A Bottle...
...were in a relatively stable area, and we decided not to involve ourselves politically," said Dreschler. On the day of the first local elections in the country since 1971, the American group went off to another, quieter part of the island, he said...
...more than $1.8 billion apiece, the Seawolfs may turn out to be the superduds of undersea warfare. Last week widely respected Congressional Staff Aide Anthony Battista declared that the Seawolf could not compete with faster, quieter Soviet subs and that the Navy should scrap it. Reaction to this broadside was swift. "We continue to have, by far, the finest submarines in the world," retorted Navy Secretary James Webb...