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...John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company announced earlier this week that it plans to replace the building's 10,348 double-paned windows with high-strength half-inch thick monolithic glass...
...Aveitl set up the play at 6:25 of the second half, booting a corner kick perfectly to the head of sophomore forward Steve Hines who used every inch of his six feet to beat the Irish goalie. Four minutes later forward Leroy Thompson made a picture pass, centering the ball from left wing to Audit who tapped it to the right side...
...ahead of its time that many features resulted in an updating of FAA regulations. New patterns of lighting for both centers and edges of runways, as well as brighter, low-glare runway signs for pilots, will now become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches to accommodate heavier aircraft now on the drawing boards−and possibly even rocket-powered airliners...
...average of one inch every 25 years...
...have yet to have, for example, one question on the business of the people." The extraordinary implication was that the Watergate scandal is somehow not the business of the people-and the press. Nevertheless, in fielding one question after another about that business, Nixon gave not an inch. The highlights...