Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northeastern, the third-place team in the powerful Hockey East, could not stop the Crimson. The Huskies fell 7-1 even though Harvard started backup goalie Dickie McEvoy...
Dickie McEvoy, Blair's backup, won his only start this year and saw action in two other Crimson victories...
...Viet Nam War, television, the drug culture and stress generated by the sheer number of baby boomers. Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Michael Peck suggests that in today's highly mobile families, the high rate of divorce and generally "less available parenting" have left adolescents with little emotional backup...
...temperature of 50 degrees F. But despite some reservations expressed the day before the tragedy by booster manufacturer Morton Thiokol, Mulloy said, NASA technicians had concluded (and Thiokol experts concurred) that the seals would work. Mulloy later volunteered that even if the primary O ring failed, the backup ring "would seat as it has done in the past, even under those temperature conditions...
Mulloy's statement seemed at odds with a 1982 NASA report. The document concluded that because of shifting motions in the boosters at launch, the secondary O rings might not seat properly. But NASA decided that the shuttle could keep flying without an assured backup, knowing that the consequences of failure, in the agency's own words, could be "loss of mission, vehicle and crew...