Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interception, the only Air Force jets with the right type of radar to detect low-flying planes are supersonic; but if they slow to the 150 m.p.h. of the suspect prop planes, they will be near stalling speed. Even then they could do little but frighten the smugglers. The possibility of downing innocents almost certainly would preclude any shoot-to-kill orders to Air Force pilots...
...SPEED-THE-PLOW. Playwright turned Filmmaker David Mamet returns to Broadway and skewers Hollywood. Singer Madonna stars as a temp secretary with big plans...
Among the six major investigations of the crash, three concluded that computer-driven index arbitrage and a related strategy known as portfolio insurance were at least partly to blame for the speed and severity of the 508- point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average. The Brady commission, which the Reagan Administration appointed, contended in its report last January that Chicago's futures markets have gained inordinate leverage over New York because the two marketplaces play by such vastly different rules and fail to monitor their complex interactions...
Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who had feared that the workers' revolt was ill timed and had joined it only reluctantly, admitted that the finale amounted to a "step back." The government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced plans to speed up Poland's economic restructuring program. But in the sullen aftermath of the country's crushed labor rebellion, few expected the measures to make much difference...
...that cheap gasoline is available again, we have forgotten all about the energy crisis. Gas guzzling cars are popular again. The speed limit is 65 miles per hour. Research on synthetic fuels, fusion and other alternative energy sources has been pushed to the back burner. And no one speaks of conservation any more...