Jarvis Island
Jarvis Island island, 1.7 sq mi (4.4 sq km), central Pacific, one of the Line Islands , just south of the equator and c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) S of Honolulu. Known to British and American mariners, it was claimed in 1856 by the United States along with Howland Island and Baker Island but was annexed by Great Britain in 1889. American colonists were brought to Jarvis in 1935; the following year the island was placed under the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Jarvis is now uninhabited.
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Parachute Do's and Don'ts
Magazine article from: National Dragster; 2/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...mount the parachutes on a race...or each parachute may be placed...dust to the parachutes." #3...While some parachute failures are...attention to parachute maintenance...maintaining their parachutes regularly...
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Our parachutes in life.(Gentle Breeze)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 10/7/2007; 700+ words
; ...our lives. Someone who has been our physical parachute; our mental parachute; our emotional parachute; and our spiritual parachute. We all have our packs of parachutes in life. These are the people we owe our lives to. People who have...
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Our parachutes in life.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 7/13/2002; 700+ words
; ...our lives. Someone who has been our physical parachute; our mental parachute; our emotional parachute; and our spiritual parachute. We all have our packs of parachutes in life. These are the people we owe our lives to. People who have...
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Parachute Technologies Includes I'm InTouch(TM) Remote Access Software With New Products.
PR Newswire; 2/28/2002; 700+ words
; PLYMOUTH, Minn. and TORONTO -- Parachute Technologies, LLC, developer of the...Under the terms of the agreement, Parachute will include 01's browser-based remote access software, I'm InTouch, with Parachute products beginning with the upcoming...
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Parachute System Can Save Small Planes
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...an emergency parachute system is deployed...private plane. These parachutes, which are used...generation of emergency parachutes that would work...reaching for the parachute handle as his plane...the estimated 500 parachute systems Ballistic...planes to install parachutes, but only ...
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POWERED PARACHUTES | PAIR LIKES FREEDOM OF FLIGHT GIVEN BY LIGHT AIRCRAFT
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 11/23/1999; 700+ words
; ...Dancers Powered Parachutes of Illinois. They...Buckeye Powered Parachute, from Buckeye...years ago. Powered parachutes look like a little...rectangular-shaped parachute coming out of its...impressed that the parachute opened before it...lesson. Powered parachutes cost about $9...
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Parachute Safety Device Invented
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...fill. Like the parachutes made for Rutan...using a Butler parachute, but the company...for the Navy's parachute development center and got a parachute rigger's license...fascination with parachutes, however, goes...
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Parachute inventor's device makes emergency bailouts safer `Sombrero Slider' reduces shock by controlling speed in which canopy opens
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to manufacture a parachute that uses a "Sombrero...seven books on parachutes and sky diving...for the Navy's parachute development center and got a parachute rigger's license...fascination with parachutes, however, goes...
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Parachute Maker Eyes Military, NASA for Flight
Magazine article from: Orange County Business Journal; 5/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...to help design parachutes was critical...In the past, parachute designers used...out what kind of parachutes are needed before...president of the Parachute Industry Association...forest fires. That parachute became the prototype...contract. The new parachutes play into secretary...
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Parachute customers can catch live show: 'a star is adorned.' (sportswear)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 4/8/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...I bought the coat in a shop called Parachute. Yes it was quite expensive, but it...celebrities that also shop at one of the five Parachute stores in the U.S. Other retailers...Marcus and Macy's, also carry the Parachute label. And when the Rolling Stones went...
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Parachute
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...umbrella-like parachutes were used for entertainment...recorded design for a parachute was drawn by Leonardo...pulling out the parachute. In 1912, Captain...accomplished the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. Parachutes did not become...
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Golden Parachute
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...work for them. Second, since the parachutes add to the cost of acquiring a...occur, executives with a golden parachute are more likely to respond in a...save their own job. As golden parachutes have grown increasingly lucrative...
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parachute
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Originally made of silk, parachutes are usually constructed...Kevlar. The traditional parachute takes the form of an...to the user; modern parachutes are wing-shaped...automatically release a parachute when they are at a...since World War II parachutes have been used by the...
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parachute flare
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
parachute flare a pyrotechnic signal flare that is carried up into the air by a rocket and floats suspended from a small parachute.
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golden parachute
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management
golden parachute A clause in an employment contract, usually of a senior executive, that provides for financial and other benefits if this person is sacked or decides to leave as the result of a takeover or change of ownership.
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