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Pratt & Whitney's product, the F100, had tended to stall when it was first placed on F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft in the 1970s; the engine is considered responsible for about one-third of the 35 F-16s that have been lost in crashes...
...coup. He got there, barely, in a small chartered plane from the Ivory Coast. "Over Lagos," says Wilde, "the harmattan, a dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara, had reduced visibility to 500 yds. On our first try at landing, one wing nearly scraped the runway; we began to stall. But our nerveless Ivorian pilot gunned the motor, and the plane lifted, shuddering. We made it on the second pass and emerged, wobbly with fear...
Once a counselor is accepted, he or she attends weekly meetings with the others and with Gould, which UHS support staff visit frequently. The support stall includes doctors and nurse practitioners who update and amplity current information...
...growing alarm, Congress rushed to adjourn last week without facing up to the budget dilemma. The consequences of such inaction could be severe. Even if the infant recovery survives, it may grow up deformed, with some parts of the economy performing far worse than others. Onerous interest rates could stall comebacks by the housing and auto industries. The high cost of borrowing money could depress capital spending and thus continue to devastate key business sectors such as steel, construction equipment and machine tools, which have barely begun to climb out of a deep slump...
...first. During House debate last week, Rep. Joseph P. Addabb pointed out regarding the MX. "If a missile is vulnerable you're not going to leave it to be struck down. You're going to use it as a first strike weapon." Even the chief of the Soviet general stall has expressed concern over the vulnerability of his land based missiles. Both countries will be relying on too few overly sophisticated, stationary weapons...