Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backers hope that the speech will rekindle fervor for their candidate. Enthusiasm, in fact, is now financing much of the campaign, since contributions declined dramatically after the Iowa defeat and have only gradually started to come in again. Kennedy had to abandon his lavish 727 jet for a modest twin-engine plane, and reporters must now follow him around New Hampshire and Maine in small planes of their...
Louis DiGiovanni, the Harvard Square land mogul who owned the parking lot until last Monday, only agreed to sell the land after it appeared his long-standing efforts to develop it into something really impressive--twin 20-story towers--pressive--twin 20-story towers--pressive--twin 20-story towers--would never come to fruition...
What they have been playing is undermanned. After losing four lettermen to graduation, the twin assassins of injuries and academics have knocked off a half-dozen more, and what remains is a hybrid of good, healthy students and JV's. Even Flaman admits, "You can't play Division I hockey with...
...even as the lawmen upgrade their equipment, courtesy of the smugglers, they find themselves losing out in the war of technology. Drug runners are using ever faster ships, and planes; four-engine Constellations, for example, are replacing some twin-engine planes. And some law enforcement officials in Florida frankly admit that they probably stop only one-tenth of the drug traffic, which means that shipments worth upwards of $3 billion a year are getting through...
Heading into storms, Benscotter apparently put the twin-engine Cessna 441 into a climb to get over the weather. Later, radar detected the plane flying an erratic course, and the Air Force scrambled jets to investigate. Captain Daniel Zoerb spotted the Cessna off Norfolk, Va., now more than 1,000 miles from Shreveport. It was flying at 41,000 ft., 5,000 ft. above the maximum altitude for which it is certified, and presumably on automatic pilot. Zoerb tried to make contact with the Cessna by radio, but got no answer. He saw the plane go into a steep dive...