Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the Administration and the media have condemned Moscow for its late disclosure of the accident and for its relative silence on its seriousness. But at the time of the TMI crisis, President Carter certainly wasn't letting us know how bad things were. While federal experts were predicting a...
Federal officials also tried to minimize the seriousness of the accident. After the crisis had ended, they claimed that "the system worked," arguing that no one was hurt at TMI because the safety system did its job.
The Challenger disaster understandably haunted space officials at the Cape last week as they prepared for their first launch since the accident. They checked and rechecked a 116-foot Delta rocket that was to carry a $57.5 million weather satellite into an equatorial orbit to detect developing hurricanes. When a...
The Bush-Kemp duel in Michigan, as elsewhere, exemplifies the clash of cultures within the Republican Party. The Vice President's team consists primarily of mainstream moderates, country-club conservatives and most of the state party elite. Bush, who beat Ronald Reagan in Michigan's 1980 primary, never misses a...
Jhabvala, 59, knows more about the challenges of living and writing in India than she ever meant to learn. Born in Germany of Polish parents and educated in England, she married a visiting Indian architect and went home with him in 1951. Except for this accident of the heart, she...