Word: stern
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Landing a jet on an aircraft carrier at night. That flat description understates the most harrowing exercise in military aviation. Seated at the controls of a plane that may weigh as much as 25 tons, a pilot approaches his carrier from the stern. All he sees to guide him are the ship's banks of dimmed, tiny lights. Slowing his airspeed to about 150 m.p.h., the pilot tries to ease his howling machine down onto a bobbing runway barely 600 ft. long. At touchdown, if all goes well, a hook on the underside of the jet's tail...
...stern espousal of anti-Communism does conform with the Administration's foreign policy generally. Still, Lefever was not the first choice of either the State Department or the White House. His appointment was one of many made in deference to the extreme views of Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms, alarmed by the growing anti-Lefever fever, dropped in during the second day of testimony, and finally could not contain himself. He snarled at a witness from the National Council of Churches: "You came here as an expert on human rights, and you attack a man of fine...
...that were not enough to inflame Begin, Schmidt had also characterized him unflatteringly in an off-the-record remark that found its way into the West German weekly Stern and, apparently, to Begin's ears. The Jews, Schmidt reportedly said, had taken 2,000 years to found a state "and then 30 years later, along comes a lunatic like Begin and puts everything at risk...
...spacecraft checks out during the coming weeks. Shortly after the Boeing landed, the shuttle was lifted off its back by a giant hoist that NASA, in characteristic jargon, calls a mate/demate device. Columbia was then towed to its processing hangar, where it will undergo stem-to-stern examination and overhaul...
...such critics justified in seeing a general failure of business management in the U.S.? Wharton's Dean Carroll, who used to run a computer information systerns firm in Cambridge, Mass., looks stern as he reflects on the question posed by TIME'S Denise Worrell...