Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chasing throughout his term. Carter was forced to play politics. But he compounded the embarassment with lies, and those in turn were compounded by conflicting stories at the Justice Department on the progress of Marston's investigation into dubious financial dealings in connection with the construction of a new wing of the Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia...
Marston learned last July that Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) had allegedly secured a $14.5 million federal grant for financing the new wing. Eilberg's law firm subsequently obtained the rights to handle the construction contract and the hospital contracted the engineering firm recommended to them by Flood. Based on this information, Marston began a full-fledged investigation, aided by the testimony of a former Flood aide, Stephen Elko, who turned state's evidence after his recent bribery conviction in Los Angeles last October...
...Flood's involvement in the financing of a $65.1 million, 20-story addition to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. In 1975, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected the hospital's request for federal funds to build the wing. But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration. Later Flood urged the hospital to hire Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg's law firm in Philadelphia to arrange a bond issue that raised an added $39.5 million for the wing...
This jungle Siberia is the maximum-security wing of a detention system that may give Laos the sad distinction of having more political prisoners per capita than any other country...
Cockpit instruments will be electronic digital readouts. New composite building materials will make the plane much lighter than current aircraft. A top-secret wing design will be more efficient, providing greater speeds and range for less engine thrust; and the engines will use less fuel and make less noise than existing jets...