Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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France's triangular Mirage 4000, a powerful combat plane, was the most dazzling of the fighters on display, the U.S.'s F-16 the most nimble-as the Israelis helped prove during their daring raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor-and Britain's vertical-takeoff Sea Harrier the most provocative. While America still is nearly 60% of the air business, competition from our allies is stunningly evident. From gliders to missiles, a dozen nations are seriously challenging U.S. technology and salesmanship. Yet the men from Lockheed, Boeing, Martin-Marietta and scores of other U.S. firms were...
...anybody does it. To be sure, there are those who cannot help themselves-teen-age girls, for example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts, and dropped...
...need not look far to find an example of this lack of consideration. The article directly below the rate hike story mentions that "...University officials refused permission for the triangular yard in front of Kirkland House..." as a possible site for a proposed college-wide rock concert to be held April 26. The alternative site is the Radcliffe Quad, for which Dean Epps has already given his approval. However, the Quad is located in the midst of a residential neighborhood, and any loud rock concert on a Sunday afternoon would surely be annoying to some of the Quad's neighbors...
Organizers chose the Quad as the concert site after University officials refused permission for the triangular yard in front of Kirkland House, Levine said. "We tried to convince Dean Epps that the triangle was dirt, not grass," Lister said, "but he didn't want 1000-3000 people...
...women's track squad opened its 1981 outdoor season with a second-place finish in a triangular meet Saturday at the University of Massachusetts...