With its brushed stainless steel shell, gull-wing doors and low, wide profile, the DeLorean was an exotic creature.

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He also ordered the Joint Vertical Aircraft Road Map Task Force to assess the V-22 production profile alternatives against the department's overall investment in the rotary wing industrial sector and the eventual needs to replace and or refurbish aging aircraft.

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SPD's increasingly assertive left wing insisted that the party nominate a presidential candidate of its own, both to sharpen its profile and to rally its supporters before the federal election.

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