Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Either the Hornet would have to be refueled in flight or its carrier would have to sail closer to hostile shores than might be desirable. Test pilots have described the F/A-18's elaborate air-to-ground radar as "grossly inaccurate." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer flew one himself to check out reports of serious problems; when he landed, the nose wheel failed to come down and he had to adopt emergency procedures. Some experts now believe that the very concept of such a multipurpose plane is wrong. They point out that in Viet Nam, Navy pilots who specialized...
...Thayer is considering cutting back the Navy's order to 900 Hornets. But that would drive the cost of the individual aircraft still higher. Moreover, the Navy would probably want to substitute F-14 Tomcats, carrier-based fighters, for the unpurchased Hornets in their fighter role. Tomcats are even more expensive; they cost $44.3 million apiece...
...older sisters in a nearby Brighton apartment; one is a recent graduate of Yale and the other is a 24-yeaars old freshman at BU and a former professional ballerina in New York City. McCarthy welcomes the related living arrangement although she says she "loved" her freshman year in Thayer and the two following years in Currier and Walker Street. "Six years of form life is enough for anyone, through." She laughs (Before attending Harvard, the Atlanta, Georgia native spent the final three years of high school at the nearby Walnot Hill school for the performing arts...
Winding your way down into the basement of Thayer Hall, you stumble upon a carpeted beehive of activity which acts as the nexus for HSA's 11 agencies, each run by a separate student manager. In total, these 11 agencies employ about 1400 students bartending, catering, driving linen trucks, delivering refrigerators, writing travel guides, or, if a new project moves out, acting as Boston-Cambridge couriers for Harvard administrators. Student managers, hired selectively through a system of "posted" openings for which anyone can apply, earn an average of $4000 a year. HSA pays more student wages than any other student...
...started calling. We called her room in Canaday once on the third day. "No, she hasn't shown up yet." Twice the next day, Immediately after every meal on the day after that. Nothing. Someone said that a guy from Thayer and one of Catherine Oxenberg's intended roommates had started dating after spending so much time on the phone talking about the mystery women...