Word: swoopingly
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...that look like praying mantises, can haul aloft a command-post pod or a disabled airplane with equal ease-or thrust 94 men at a stroke into battle. The 1st Cavalry's transport helicopters are protected by rocket-firing choppers-and at 100 m.p.h. the First Team can swoop down with overwhelming force at any point in the contested highlands that the Viet Cong dare mass and attempt an attack...
...stored list. When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed out, and the teletypist radios ahead to a second prowl car parked some 900 ft. down the road. The whole thing takes about 7 sec.-ample time for the second car to swoop on the prey...
...average monthly hikes seem modest-$5 for individual recipients, $8 for couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel...
...something of a shock, but this year it proved a positive trauma. The reason, paradoxically, was the $11.5 billion tax cut enacted 13 months ago. While Congress reduced income tax rates in a two-stage, two-year process, it slashed the uniform 18% withholding rate to 14% in one swoop. The result was that about 20 million of the nation's 65 million taxpayers did not have enough withheld from their salaries, had to cough up some $500 million more...
Those who like their lingerie brief and to the point can slip into Warner's combination bra-slip ($11) or Olga's lace-trimmed romper ($6). Finally, Formfit/Rogers has something that occurs in one fell swoop: its so-called "Bathing Suit" ($12.50) is not only backless and practically frontless but scooped away at the midriff until there is almost nothing left. But that, of course, is the whole idea...