Word: compressor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deadly crash of a Fine Air cargo jet yesterday. After hearing witness reports of the plane "wobbling" upon takeoff from Miami International, Hannifin believes the tragedy that killed the DC-8's four-man crew and injured four others on the ground was likely the result of a stalled compressor in one of the plane's engines...
...made it the modernist site to beat all others. "Your New York," he told the press, "is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses modern thinking in its architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic New York, 1917--a bunch of slats, stacked to mimic the setbacks of skyscrapers, held together by a C clamp...
Bellows' most powerful image of the city as compressor of violence was the boxing ring. Prizefighting was made illegal in New York State in 1900. But that did not dispose of the semi-clandestine "club nights," with battling pugs drawn from the hard, desperate edge of Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish street gangs -- kids who would pound each other to hash for a purse under the eyes of a flushed, yelling house. The sport was barely a notch up from the bareknuckle slugging of Georgian England...
...Otisca had been able to recover all but 0.1% of the Freon, motivated to do so by the sheer economics of recycling the expensive chemical. But in the big plant in Beverly, it was losing as much as 5%. Smith discovered that he had installed the wrong kind of compressor to recover the Freon, then argued with AEP over how to fix it. "I tried to save it too long," admits Smith. "I think their confidence in me waned tremendously." AEP lost interest and moved on to testing other coal-cleaning technologies...
...prototypes of the new MiG-31 fighter and the next generation of Soviet civilian airliners, the Tu-204 and Il-114. Nearby is the T-128 transonic wind tunnel, where the space shuttle Buran and the Energiya booster rocket were tested with airstreams driven by a 1,000-kW compressor. The center is also adjacent to the Ramenskoye proving ground, the largest airfield in Europe...