Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups and businesses. In Waltham, Mass., 93% of the 4,600 grammar and junior high students have rolled their fingers on print cards at school since March. In Topeka, Kans., more than 8,000 youngsters, ages nine months to 17 years, have showed up at malls, churches, schools and scout troop meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring to the office to participate in the company-sponsored Operation Ident. That same weekend in New England...
...system. (There is no offensive program due to budget problems and the desire to avoid having Harvard's weaknesses inadvertently displayed on some freshman's screen during a data test.) The results seem impressive, the coaches often show up with a printout nine inches high during Monday night scout meetings...
...from the jungle-this is the Dominican Republic now-comes the ball on the fly to home plate. Into the woods runs our scout, and there was this kid, José González-" Lasorda presents a strapping 6-ft. 2-in. outfielder whose uniform number, 77, signals that he is a farm hand. "Just 18 years old!" Lasorda exclaims. "See, we grow our own." It is a fact that the Dodgers have provided the National League's past four Rookies of the Year, and the candidate of the moment is Brock, who on the strength of 17 major...
Chrysler hopes that besides attracting van fans, the Voyager/Caravan will appeal to suburban housewives whose station wagons are not quite big enough for a Cub Scout den or a Little League team. For small-fry passengers, the step up into the Voyager/Caravan will only be 15 in., compared with 23 in. for a typical van. Unlike most vans, Chrysler's trimmer model will fit into a standard-size garage. The price of a Voyager/Caravan will range from $8,500 for a no-frills model to $12,000 for deluxe version equipped with such options as power windows...
...would be an expensive machine to lose in combat, so the Army began searching for a cheaper, smaller scout and observation chopper. It settled on the OH-58 Kiowa. The contractor, Bell Helicopter, apparently followed the time-honored practice of "buying into" a contract by submitting an artificially low initial estimate. Within two years, the projected cost of the total scout program doubled, from $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion, even though the number of aircraft to be bought was reduced from 720 to 578. Part of the problem is that the scout's complex laser sight has run into...