Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
...sides at the hearing, however, could agree on one thing: the best solution to the abortion dilemma is to prevent unwanted pregnancies. "Most abortions would not take place," noted the Surgeon General, "if pregnancies were not unplanned and unwanted." He and others called for better research into contraception and improved sex education as important steps toward reducing the need for abortions...
Dearing remarked that his team won the game because, "[We were] probably better with ball-control. I think we blocked a little better...
...they don't act like they're better players than you are," he continues. "They make it really easy for the rest of us not to feel inferior...
According to President Derek Bok, the Crimson couldn't ask for a better set-up in this weekend's best-of-three NCAA quarterfinal series against Lake Superior State...