Word: towering
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...bomber (price for each plane: $540 million), the company builds so- called smart weapons systems, guidance modules for MX missiles and other military hardware. After losing $80.5 million last year, the company cut costs by selling its Gulfstream IV corporate jet in January and its glass-and-steel headquarters tower in Century City, Calif., for $218 million in March. If congressional proposals to kill the $70 billion B-2 program prevail, some industry experts think Northrop's long-term survival will be in doubt...
SINCE 1971, Harvard students have protested the University's involvement in the South African economy. Students have marched, staged sit-ins, chanted and constructed an "Ivory Tower" in the middle of the Yard to show their support for divestment. In 1986, a College-wide referendum showed that 65 percent of students favored divestment. favored divestment...
...Tower of trash. In Toulouse, the activist group Friends of the Earth will unveil a 2.5-meter (8-ft.) tall garbage sculpture titled Monument to the Unknown Refuse...
...first, Bungee Adventures in California, has already sent 8,000 thrill seekers over the edge. Although there have been no fatalities reported in the U.S., two French jumpers fell to their deaths last year when their cords severed, and a third died after colliding with a tower...
...public record on Iran-contra, from the Tower commission to the congressional hearings and the various cases brought by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, is incontestable on the key points: Reagan approved the weapons sales to Iran in the hope they would lead to the release of American hostages; he ordered that the contras be financed from private and foreign sources, even though Congress had expressed its opposition by cutting off U.S. funding. And he wanted both dealings kept secret from the American public...