Overall, a total of about 900 were sold globally, but since 1991 the fast but heavy jet with aerodynamically advanced wings has had no major modifications.

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Pham and several co-workers planned to jet to Las Vegas for a weekend of heavy partying after Slide's dinner in San Francisco last Friday.

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Britain invented the jet engine and radar and supplied much of the heavy cognitive lifting for the computer and biotechnology industries.

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Cruise missiles and jet fighters work against fixed targets, concentrations of forces or heavy weapons on open ground.

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The boards of directors, all of which are still Brit-heavy, would have to be rejigged unless board meetings were to become jet-lag experiments.

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The 787, the first jetliner made from a majority of lightweight carbon fiber composites, eliminates hot, heavy and hard-to-maintain pneumatic systems that power key parts of the jet.

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In May and June, heavy rains in the basin of the Yangtze river had created an enormous flow of fresh water, and this jet had sluiced the jellyfish towards Japan.

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