hard landing

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hard landing

The landing by impact of a spacecraft unequipped with or not using devices such as retrorockets to slow it down.

hard landing

1. (Astronautics) a landing by a rocket or spacecraft in which the vehicle is destroyed on impact

2. a sharp fall into recession following a sustained period of economic growth Compare soft landing

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Sometimes people say is this about a hard landing or soft landing and what I point out is in the four rate hike cycles under Volcker and Greenspan, the four major ones, that there were two soft landings and two hard landings.

The Bush economy: TIE sat down with Richard Clarida, the Bush ... by Clarida, Richard H. / The International Economy

It would be difficult to characterize the position of homebuilders as other than in a hard landing.

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A helicopter made a hard landing at Van Nuys Airport about 5:15 p.

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