Word: rayed
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...tail assembly and the repairs were examined visually after the work was done, according to Hiroaki Kohno, general manager of JAL's maintenance planning department. There was no need for X-ray examination, he said, because "we had full access to the damaged area from the underside." Could some damage have been overlooked at that time? "That cannot be completely ruled out," Kohno conceded, "although that probability would be very...
...able to compete, but a burgeoning number of entrepreneurs think they can. Americans are eating out more than ever, and more than ever they are eating fast food. Since Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's in a Chicago suburb back in 1955 (burgers: 15¢), fast food has grown to a $45 billion business. The increase from ten years ago is nearly fourfold. From burgers to fried chicken to pizza, fast food has become the quintessentially American dining experience: a perfect expression of those bedrock values of efficiency, thriftiness and speed...
Gorbachev did offer one slight ray of hope on Afghanistan. The Soviets did not want to keep their troops there indefinitely, he declared, hinting that the Kremlin was searching for some kind of political solution...
...blood clots. For the first time since the log began, al-Qahtani is given an entire day to sleep. The next evening, the log reports that his medical "checks are all good." Al-Qahtani is "hooded, shackled and restrained in a litter" and transported back to Camp X-Ray in an ambulance...
...scantily clad women around his neck. A female interrogator so annoys al-Qahtani that he tells his captors he wants to commit suicide and asks for a crayon to write a will. At one stage, an Arabic-speaking serviceman, posing as a fellow detainee, is brought to Camp X-Ray for a short stay in an effort to gain al-Qahtani's confidence. The log reports that al-Qahtani makes several comments to interrogators that imply he has a big story to tell, but interrogators report that he seems either too scared or simply unwilling, to tell...