Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to dodge the claims of the environmentalists, who led the fight that stopped the development in 1971 of an American SST by killing its federal financing. In his 61-page decision, the Secretary frankly admitted that the 100-passenger Concorde "will be noisier than existing subsonic aircraft, save arguably for the B-707 and DC-8 on landing, which [form] 27% of the U.S. commercial fleet." As for fears that the Concorde would pollute the air or change the climate, Coleman found no evidence of any significant danger...
Harvard captain Kevin Carr hated it too, but VanDerMark robbed him with a dazzling glove save at the close of the period...
...threat continued into the third period. Cornell shot the puck into the Harvard zone off the opening face off, and Petrovek made the save, pushing the puck to his right...
With this new demonology is born a new American mission: the saving of western civilization from the clutches of the sheikhs through the forcible destruction of OPEC. The whole question of a military intervention in the Persian Gulf thus moves from the mundane level of politics to the metaphysical level of national salvation. A US intervention is transformed from a desperate act of a declining imperial power into a courageous and disinterested gesture by the American people, undertaken in order to save the West and all it stands for from its otherwise imminent demise at the hands of the "extortionists...
Leahy said the proposal to readjust the calendar to save money if the "warm zone" experiment was successful is now "completely dead." He said officials presently have no plans for heating measures during next Christmas vacation...