MacCready would go on to claim a second Kremer prize with another Gossamer: the Albatross.
All profits go to BirdLife International's Save the Albatross campaign, which is how the royals got involved.
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If the GOPer says yes, the albatross has landed, and the TV and radio spots write themselves.
And Michael Chertoff has the albatross around his neck of the way DHS handled the Katrina relief program.
That, and improving efficiency really made human powered-flight move from sustained hops and skips to the international crossings of the Albatross.
He says many older Americans are facing foreclosure, and the foreclosure crisis is still the albatross around the economy's neck dragging it down.
Inevitably, the albatross was recalled by Charles's critics when he, too, sought to persuade the United States to stay out of the war.
Translation: Since ObamaCare abandons every actuarial principle known to insurance, it must impose lots of government controls in the hope of making the albatross work.
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The report underlines how it is Medicare, rather than Social Security, the government's bigger pension scheme, that will be the albatross around the taxpayer's neck.
Richard Nixon has the albatross of White House tapes hanging around his neck, where he can still be heard speaking negatively about African Americans, Mexicans and Jews.
The target distance of 22 miles was now within sight for MacCready's team, which brought the Albatross over to the English coast ready for the prize attempt on June 12, 1979.
In a last-ditch effort to carry on, Allen lifted the Albatross higher where he found calmer winds, at least calm enough for him to endure another hour before finally landing on the beach at Cap Gris Nez victorious.
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Recent comments by unnamed Bush Administration officials strongly suggest that at least the State Department would actually welcome such an outcome, seeing it as an opportunity to relieve the U.S. government of the albatross of an unpopular policy toward Nicaragua inherited from the Reagan Administration.
New Mexico State's athletic department got a nearly 70% subsidy in 2009-10, weighted by the albatross of a football team that hasn't reached a bowl in 51 years. (Neither UAB nor New Mexico State responded to a request for comment.) Meanwhile, public funding for universities has plummeted.
Oosthuizen, 29, had rocketed into the lead when he holed his second shot at the par-five second hole for only the fourth albatross in the history of the Masters.
At first this may sound like a great deal: the business is rid of the purported albatross, and the business and marital estate is purportedly saved thousands of dollars.
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Third, the big albatross on returns has been the post-bubble crisis.
Unfortunately, the word albatross has become a common term used within baseball and it will take a progressive owner to break the bad habits that have led to a consistent cycle of overpayment, disappointment and regret.
Our GDP and job growth have already slowed substantially, and the European albatross is likely to continue to bedevil us.
But public debt became the main albatross around Italy's neck as governments ran budget deficits that in 1975-95 averaged (yes, averaged) almost 10% of GDP each and every year.
The flagship NBC network, once seen as the deal's albatross, has been on the turnaround.
In 1979, 26-year-old cyclist Bryan Allen flew the man-powered "Gossamer Albatross" across the English Channel.
The moniker can become an albatross that can suck the life out of an otherwise splendid career.
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Talented as he might be, Price is probably not worth the payout and his contract could be a an albatross for the team should his production fall off in the next few seasons.
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In countless ways, the antidumping status quo subverts U.S. competitiveness and is an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy.
His sentence of life in prison was meant to serve as a deterrent for anyone who dared question the view that Israel is nothing more than an albatross placed around the US's neck by a powerful American Jewish lobby and by dimwitted politicians.
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He explained that he pulled all the items out of albatross from Hawaii.
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Earlier Sweden's Asa Gottmo had hit an amazing albatross at the par-five seventh, but she finished with a disappointing 76.
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