Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designation for a runway heading of 90°, or due east). Commercial flights, not affected by the light wind, were using the same runway but in the opposite direction (designated Runway 27, short for 270°). For the practice run, Boswell put on special goggles, obstructing his view of the sky but permitting him to see his lighted instrument panel. Kazy had full visibility and sat at dual controls so he could take over the Cessna at any sign of danger...
...glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with the plane's nose up, had limited vision down toward the Cessna; in the Cessna, the high wing above the cockpit obstructed the view upward and to the rear...
Until very recently the Carter Administration had tried to find benefits in a weaker dollar, claiming that it would encourage American sales abroad; and a year ago, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal was arguing that the dollar was too expensive, and tried to talk its value down. Fortunately that view has been forcefully dismissed. Says Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller: "Any idea that it is in the interest of the U.S. to have a weak dollar, to have a lower dollar, is false prophecy. It is just not right...
...accept the accords was shared by the country at large. Most Israelis believe that they must retain a presence in the occupied territories as security against future Arab attacks. Religious Jews, moreover, consider much of this land as their God-ordained birthright. Begin shares the religious Zionist view that occupied territories where Jews lived in biblical times are rightfully part of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, he almost torpedoed the Camp David talks on that issue...
Madeleine Lourie, a staff worker for Local 880, agrees with the students' view. "It's been important and good for the union to have students working, but it is just as good for the student -- it's a real education for them. They leave the union with a sense of union work and how important it is," she says...