Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fail-safe systems to handle an emergency as other wide-bodied jets. In particular, they cite the hydraulic systems. The DC-10 has three, whereas the Lockheed TriStar has four and the Boeing 747 has five. The DC-10 places its hydraulic lines along the leading-and more exposed-wing edge, rather than in the trailing edge, where the 747's and Tri-Star's are located. Critics also claim the hydraulic lines under the DC-10's cabin are more vulnerable than the systems of the other two jets. The FAA could decide that more redundant...
...McDonnell Douglas would have to pay for any Government-ordered repairs. Each of the 275 planes in service has two potentially troublesome pylons, holding the wing engines, that might have to be replaced. Cost: $500,000 each. But more extensive design changes, for which the company probably has no insurance, could add to that $275 million bill...
...national election. Since then, Carrillo has become involved in a tenuous opposition alliance with the far more popular Socialist Party. It is generally thought that the Communists, with 100,000 or so members, are blocked from sharing in national power by popular fears of a dangerous right-wing reaction...
...which started it all in 1973 when Berlinguer launched his strategy of the "historic compromise." There is general agreement that the P.C.I, is entering a prolonged period of soul searching and internal debate. The main lines of the struggle are expected to be drawn between the hard-line left wing of the party, which has never been comfortable with Berlinguer's gradualism, and members of his own right wing who have argued for even more moderation...
...There is bound to be a profound debate on the identity of the party itself and on the whole idea of Eurocommunism," says Arrigo Levi, former editor of Turin's La Stampa. "Did it go too far or not far enough? The left wing will say we have to be more strongly 'Communist' in order not to lose more ground on our left. The right wing will say we have to recover more of the floating vote from the center and therefore we have to become more social-democratic." The outcome of the debate may well determine...