Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass...
Before the 1971 ruling, the postal serviceissued stamps honoring Columbia and PrincetonUniversities and Dartmouth College. But postalofficials concede that today other such schoolswould be unlikely to maneuver around therestrictions as Harvard, resting on itssignificance as the nation's oldest college, hassucceeded in doing.
Last February the Soviets put up a new space outpost called Mir (Peace). In March they docked a crew on the station, then fired up a couple of supply payloads. Next the crew taxied out to Salyut 7, another of their space redoubts. They returned to Mir and landed back...
While Trieste II could reach great depths, it was little more than a spherical cabin suspended from a buoyant hull and capable of withstanding great pressures. But it was unable to rescue submariners or salvage vessels. What was needed, the Navy decided, was submersibles and ROVs able to maneuver at...
J.J.'s performance on the Titanic mission drew attention to the potential of remotely operated vehicles, which are not only supplementing the work of manned submersibles but in many cases replacing them. ROVs became popular during the 1973 oil crisis, when companies were forced to search for new petroleum reserves...