Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"He was trying to reach down and put something that was caught on the side into the back of the truck, when he lost his balance, missed with his hand and careened off the back, landing right down on his skull," said Canaday resident Joseph Howard '89, who reported the...
November, 1985. Philadelphia Flyers goalie Pelle Lindbergh is killed in an automobile accident. He was drunk the night of his death.
In 1975, Olympic distance runner Steve Prefontaine was killed in a drunk driving accident. Atlanta Hawks guard Terry Furlow died in 1980 after a drug problem. The 1983 Pan Am Games were marred by the departure of several U.S. team members who left after Games officials announced they would perform...
But by last week the atmosphere, and NASA's image, had changed. After declaring that NASA's procedure for deciding whether to launch Challenger "may have been flawed," Rogers demanded that no NASA official involved in that decision take further part in the space agency's own investigation. And word...
Even the authoritative and generally pro-NASA trade journal Aviation Week & Space Technology was critical. While praising the "dedication, high level of effort and in many cases personal sacrifice" of NASA personnel, it charged that "undercurrents reveal a hidebound space agency fraught with lax management oversight, intramural turf battles between...