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Boeing surely deserves credit for excellence in aircraft design, but don't forget the contribution made by the jet-engine companies, including Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The plane is designed around the engine. Recent advances in technology far surpass those of the airframe makers. The principal reason that Boeing and the other companies are venturing into new models is that these advances cut fuel costs while improving thrust and reliability...
...Professors Jorgenson and Nishimizu, the modernity of their average productive facilities already edged past the United States by 1973. In 1978, the absolute amount of investment in new plant and equipment in Japan was already approximately the same as in the United States, and it may be expected to surpass American investment in absolute terms shortly. This is not surprising given the fact that the Japanese savings rate, which had been averaging about 20 per cent a year, has been well above that the last several years while the American savings rate, which had been averaging about six per cent...
Doctors pumped mixtures of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen into the chamber to simulate various ocean depths. The dive originally had been planned for only 1500 feet but after a successful air misture was found using helium, to replace nitrogen, the divers and doctors agreed to try to surpass the previous depth record of 2001 feet, set in 1972 by a French diving team...
...members of the royal family, including Fahd, have argued that current high production levels (9.5 million bbl. per day) are necessary to stabilize the world oil market and assist important allies like the U.S. At the current price of $26 per bbl., Saudi Arabia's oil revenues could surpass $90 billion this year...
Believe me, Sire, these countries far surpass all the rest of the world in beauty and conveniency...