Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Destroying tanks is expensive too. Six years ago the Army decided to commission its own shoulder-held antitank weapon, called the Viper, to replace a Norwegian model costing $135. The U.S. version would be cheaper, a mere $78, and have a longer range. But the first models proved too noisy, so the firing tube was lengthened. When these were tested, part of the barrel blew off. Subjected to the prescribed two-hour water-immersion test, the weapon failed after five minutes underwater. The Norwegian model now costs $250. The Viper, if Congress does not shoot it down, is expected...
This damn-the-cost loyalty to developing weapons is one of the main reasons that they are so hard to scuttle. In the age of technology, one path to acquiring shoulder stars is nurturing a system to fruition. Upward-bound officers often find themselves allied with contractors in an effort to convince the Pentagon and others that their project should be built. The temptation is to underestimate costs at the beginning. Admits Army Under Secretary James Ambrose: "It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor...
Faces and limbs freckled in every hollow, burnished on the ball of the shoulder, the tip of the nose . . . The light in their eyes stealing sparkle from the far hard edge...
...NOTEBOOK: Out with a shoulder injury, Courtney Stimpson should be back in action in the near future, in time for the Penn match a week from Saturday if not for the contest at Yale this weekend... Sukie Magraw, Wellesley's third-year coach, is a 1977 graduate of Radcliffe... Walking away with the price for understatement of the day was Harvard coach Jack Marnaby. "I think Wellesley is inexperienced compared to us," he said during yesterday's match. None of the players from Wellesley competed in high school, while the Crimson's line-up is filled with former top-ranked...
...raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: "Why did you send me this renegade from the human race...