Word: latching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would also note that maintenance also has a part to play. In one particular section of the university, I have been noting on my security report (which I leave for the superintendant of the buildings) which doors do not close properly or simply do not latch...
While the latch problem may not have been directly related to the plane's age, newer aircraft generally need less maintenance than older jets. Most of the major carriers, especially the profitable ones, are upgrading their fleets as fast as the aircraftmakers can build them. United took delivery of 23 new Boeing 737-300s in the second half of 1988, thus lowering the average age of its 400-jet fleet from 14.9 years in July to 13.5 years as of Jan. 1. The American fleet, which averaged 10.8 years old last July, has been reduced to 9.4 years currently...
...during the Iran- contra hearings as the loyal secretary who helped Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North shred documents. She later landed on a Barbara Walters special and, while refusing tawdry offers and showing no tasteless impatience, has enlisted the William Morris Agency to represent her. She would like to latch onto an on-the-air TV job. "If I don't try this," Hall explains, "I might regret...
Sylvia Stark, 61, had just returned to her home in southwest Miami earlier this month when she heard someone rattling the latch on the front porch. Before she could call the police, a brawny youth barreled through the screen door, grabbed her purse and dashed off to a waiting car. Two weeks later the still shaken housewife could be found at a local shooting range, carefully aiming her new Smith & Wesson .38 Special at the blue silhouette of a would-be assailant. Says Stark: "The robbery made me very paranoid, and I just want to protect myself. Next time...
SUPPOSE THE professor says, "the main character in this play is a Christ figure. Thank you. Have a good weekend." This will immediately trigger a pleasant sounding latch mechanism, opening a hatch from which a credit towards tenure will fall. If the professor already has tenure, he gets an autographed picture of himself...