Word: sturdier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pleased with the experiment, the MPs have decided to make their bike patrols permanent. There have been a couple of problems, however. Two-hundred-pound MPs were bending the bikes out of shape, so the base plans to buy half a dozen sturdier models with thicker tires and wider seats. And a number of MPs found at first that they were all too popular: flocks of cycling children rode after them as if the pedaling policemen were Pied Pipers...
...support of 63 members: 43 from his own Likud bloc, 16 from Israel's two right-wing religious parties, former General Ariel Sharon and a colleague who represent the conservative Shlomzion Party, new Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements...
...same factor that created the vast increase in air travel: the development of the jet airliner. Flying in a modern jet is ten times as safe as flying in the noisier and slower piston-en-gined aircraft of the mid-'50s. Over the years, airframes have become sturdier and engines not only much more powerful but much more reliable. The FAA, the manufacturers and the airlines poured millions into developing better flight control equipment?sophisticated radars and navigation aids. Military innovations were adopted for commercial use. The FAA steadily tightened flight regulations, prescribing in minute detail how and where planes...
...that's just the beginning. The middle of the ladder, starring juniors Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon at four and five and seniors Ken Ehrlich and Scott Mead at six and seven, is sturdier than Widener. It's also fairly chummy, as three of the four--Panarese being the exception--join Kaplan as graduates of the same national high school...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...