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...according to Navy Secretary John Lehman, "the most capable air-to-air maneuvering aircraft in the world." But last week the Navy announced that its new F/A-18 Hornet fighter-bombers had a design flaw that produces cracks in the twin tail assembly. The planes will be grounded for three or four days while the tail assembly is modified. At least ten Hornets have developed the cracks and will be out of service for a longer period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stung Hornets | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...boats carry a horned green dragon head at the stem and a green tail at the bow, They must be "blessed" before the vessel can be called seaworthy, in a ritual where the pupils of the dragon eyes are "dotted...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: Crew Team Races Dragon Boats in Hong Kong | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...boats all have a green dragon head, with yellow and red dotted horns at the stern, and a green tail at the bow. The rowers sit double-banked using small paddles...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: The Far Eastern sprints | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Certainly Harvard's investors enjoyed what was probably their best year ever. Riding the tail-end of the great bull market of 1982, the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, boosted Harvard's bank account from $1.7 billion to $2.4 billion, the largest in American academia. Harvard plunged heavily into the stock market at one point almost 80 percent of the endowment was in equities. But the University in December shifted $300 million from stocks to bonds...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Harvard's money woes | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...tell, if only he could trust you. Grammar is irrelevant; sentences seem to have been delivered, not written: "At approximately 1:30 a.m. he saw the Silver Mark VI traveling south on John R at a high rate of speed with a black Buick like nailed to its tail." His humor is stag: "When the girls would say do-it-to-me, do-it-to-me, he would think, What do you think I'm doing?" or Vegas: "Listen, when I was a kid, the neighborhood I grew up in? It was so dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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