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...planes, which cost over a billion dollars to develop, easily exceed the Air Force's stringent performance requirements. Both can cruise at supersonic speeds without having to resort to fuel-gulping afterburners, and they have twice the range of the F-15. The aircraft use advanced computerized controls and simplified screens to lighten the pilot's work load. Both candidates incorporate the latest radar-evading "stealthy" features. They pack as much as 20 times the data-processing power of an F-15 for spotting hostile aircraft before being seen themselves...
...unemployment rate in the late 1980s was a dismal 17 percent. Many of Ireland's best and brightest have left their homeland with their superb education for 'the West,' only to be denied a home in the United States due to immigration quotas. These young people are forced to resort to living as illegal aliens, taking jobs in nursing, child care, and forms of menial labor...
Baker warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that the cease-fire agreement in the Persian Gulf War imposed strict limits on his military operations. The implication was that the United States might resort to force to restrict his tactics in conflicts with rebels...
...findings came after a 14-month investigation detailing how more than $1 million in contributions, four trips to the Bahamas and all-expense-paid stays at resort hotels found their way from indicted savings and loan executive Charles Keating, who needed protection from federal regulators trying to shut him down, to five U.S. Senators and their staffs. The committee found Senators John Glenn of Ohio ($234,000 in Keating contributions) and John McCain of Arizona ($112,000) the least culpable, engaging only in "poor judgment" because they gave Keating less help than did the others. Senators Donald Riegle of Michigan...
...other business the council approved a motion supporting an opinion by Secretary of Laboratory Animals Stuart E. Wiles that the Draize eye test and the LD 50 test should be used only as a "last resort...