Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought they had the answer to a pilot's prayer. Using on-board computers, the Low Altitude Navigation, Targeting Infra-Red Night system, known as LANTIRN, was touted as the new technology that could guide pilots of F-16s and A-10s close to the ground during bad weather or at night. Then, while helping U.S. aces dodge hills and other obstacles, LANTIRN would spot enemy targets and automatically program air-to-ground missiles on an instantaneous search-and-destroy mission. To be sure, the LANTIRN program's price tag was $1 billion, but if it did what...
...gives the boat added stability, more agility in tacking and greater speed overall. While his boat clearly had the advantage over all comers in light winds, many experts questioned whether it could perform as well in heavier conditions. Australia II, it turned out, is glorious in any kind of weather...
...sixth race, sailed in crystalline weather, there were moderate twelve-knot winds from the northwest. Bertrand lost the start again, this time by 7 sec., but soon into the first tack spotted something his opponent had not: dark patches of water, indicating a wind buildup on the left side of the course. He sailed for it, again uncovered by Conner, who said later, "We missed it." As Liberty rounded the first mark 2 min. 29 sec. behind Australia II, Gary Jobson, a winning crew member in Ted Turner's 1977 defense, exclaimed, "This is a disaster!" The flying bridge...
...weather was cold and wet, and the faithful struggled to keep their wares as unsullied as their ideology. Neither was easy for France's Communist Party (P.C.F.) last week as hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers gathered for their annual fund-raising fair, the fête de l'humanité, in a 37-acre park in the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve. While construction workers, secretaries and concierges wrestled with their crepes, foie gras and muscadet in the pounding rain, party leaders were striving to maintain loyalty on the most emotional issue...
...even bother to attend the reading of the verdict, which found them guilty of killing a Brink's guard and two police officers during a $1.6 million robbery in New York's Rockland County. Gilbert tried to turn his day of reckoning into a celebration by marrying Weather Underground Radical Kathy Boudin. After the brief ceremony, conducted by a jail chaplain and sealed by a kiss, the two were hauled off to separate cells. Boudin and another Brink's suspect, Samuel Brown, will begin their murder and robbery trial...