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...wings are on right; they are supposed to sweep forward. They are mounted at the tail end and pitched ahead at a 35° angle. The configuration increases lift, reduces drag, prevents stall outs, and allows the X-29A to turn on a dime at supersonic speeds. Just behind the cockpit are gill-like projections called canards, the French word for ducks. Indeed, the plane resembles a mallard in full flight...
...fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture, of life, of picturesqueness, of brilliant color, of light and shade. There is a picture in every street and at every bazaar stall." Some 70 years later another novelist, E.M. Forster, foresaw a dreary end to the Orientalist movement. In a letter to a friend about a voyage through the Suez Canal, he wrote, "It was like sailing through the Royal Academy-a man standing by a sitting camel, followed by a picture...
...steepness of the decline in unemployment is causing some economists to fear that the recovery is moving too fast. An overheated economy, fueled in part by the huge federal budget deficit, could continue pushing interest rates upward and possibly reignite inflation. That might stall the American job machine as early as 1985. For the moment, though, the economy is humming along. Last month some 460,000 people went back to work. For them, punching a time clock never felt so good...
...reluctant to go. Twice he asked if there were any more questions and stayed past three o'clock. Instead of heading for the front door, the President turned into the pantry and shook hands with everybody including his own secret service man who was standing with the dining room stall...
...fact, faster talks were just what the new Administration did not want. It preferred to stall as long as possible and concentrate on quantitative and qualitative improvements in the American arsenal so that eventually, if and when the U.S. did return to the bargaining table with the Soviet Union, it could do so from a position of far greater strength, if not superiority...