Word: thrust
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...Little, Brown, we naturally jumped at it. The result appears in this issue, and it is classic Phillips: in-depth analysis, grounded in American political history and leading to provocative conclusions. Says Phillips, 54: "The American people are saying we have to change the current political system. The whole thrust of the book is that they're right...
Federal investigators have identified three possible reasons for the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh last Thursday, in which 132 people died. In addition to the mid-air deployment of thrust reversers, officials of the National Transportation Safety Board said that it was possible that the right engine came loose or that brakes were unevenly deployed...
Federal investigators said engine parts from Flight 427 indicate a potential cause of the accident: one or more of the components called "actuators," which help slow the plane's movement, may have been set off without a command from the cockpit. That action could have inappropriately reversed the thrust of the engines, causing the plane to roll off into a dive. The actuators are normally deployed to slow a plane down only after landing. USAir records show a flight crew reported problems with the plane's reverse thrust two and a half months earlier...
Though it was always a little hard to pin down, hip was a notion roomy enough to describe flower children in tie-dye as well as bikers in black leather, the impeccable cool of John Coltrane's sax as well as the jerky forward thrust of Abbie Hoffman. All of it was admissible on the principle that it represented a heartfelt rejection of the mainstream. The mainstream was understood to be all-powerful and wrong about everything: politics, art, religion, sex, drugs and music. It was deaf to the beat, blind to the truth and dressed by Penney...
...thrust and parry had a tone of urgency, it was because both sides were aware that the time to prepare their case was growing short. As expected, the judge set an early date for the opening of the trial: Sept. 19. No one could know for sure whether any more witnesses would turn up before then (Simpson was offering $500,000 for information that would prove his innocence), but the case may not turn on what people saw or didn't see. By the time of the trial, the court will have what is likely to be the most important...