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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