Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House more was the revolt among moderate Republicans, who saw the President as being out of step with Congress and perhaps the voters. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, a consistent ally of the President's and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had urged Reagan to propose a new tack. He was clearly discouraged by the result. "I think the President needs to do more," he said afterward. "I had hoped the President would take this occasion for an extraordinary message to the world." Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, a respected voice on African policy, seemed to speak...
When the weather turns warm, entertainment is supposed to turn frothy and frivolous. In movie theaters, the summer brings teen comedies and top guns; at the beach, Robert Ludlum mysteries and Barbara Cartland romances. Yet TV, oddly, has taken a different tack of late. Summer series today are more likely to be of the serious sort, shows that would have little chance of surviving the ratings battle any other time of year. Thus two prime-time newsmagazines -- CBS's West 57th and NBC's 1986 -- have joined the networks' hot-weather schedules; both will presumably be back in storage...
British Airways, meanwhile, has taken a different tack to lure customers back to the skies. The company last week unveiled an unusual $8 million sweepstakes, in which it will give away all 5,200 seats on its June 10 flights between 15 U.S. cities and London. People who want to take one of those trips can send in an entry now, and the winners will be drawn on May 29. Customers who had booked seats for June 10 before the contest was announced are automatic winners. In addition, passengers on all British Airways flights this summer will be eligible...
...they flew to within 30 miles of the Libyan coast, weapons-systems officers (called whizzos), who sit beside the pilot on each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find...
...bombs are released to drop in a controlled fall. Then, in what is called a toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device that can swivel 360 degrees , keeps its laser eye on the target all the while...