Word: blows
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...shuttle, though, is mastering what could go on outside. One of the most hair-raising parts of Glenn's training involves emergency escape procedures. Crew members on shuttles must be prepared to ride slide-wire baskets down from the launch pad if a fully fueled shuttle threatens to blow; shimmy down an escape pole and parachute away from the ship in the event of a postlaunch emergency below an altitude of 20,000 ft.; and rappel down ropes from the hatch if the spacecraft makes an emergency landing on tarmac. On his Mercury flight, Glenn's only safety measure...
...administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. "They say, 'You're the only man in the Cabinet,'" reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source close to Arafat confirms that Mikhail-Ashrawi's move was a blow to the Chairman. "She hurt him," says the source. "Hanan is well known in the world; she's not a nonsense person. So her resignation is taken seriously...
...Monday, even as Monica and Starr's team were meeting in New York, a federal appeals court dealt the White House yet another blow; it ruled that Lindsey's testimony was not shielded by attorney-client privilege, since Lindsey was not actually Clinton's lawyer but paid by the taxpayers. A government lawyer's duty, the judges wrote, "is not to defend clients against criminal charges and it is not to protect wrongdoers from public exposure." It has long been believed that if anyone close to Clinton shares his deepest, darkest secrets, it's Lindsey. The prospect of his testimony...
...possibility of a public backlash--and the loss of their 11-seat majority in the House of Representatives this November--is too great a risk. "It's like pulling the pin out of a hand grenade," says John Boehner, one of the top Republicans in the House. "It may blow...
...administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. ?They say, ?You?re the only man in the Cabinet,?? reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source close to Arafat confirms that Mikhail-Ashrawi?s move was a blow to the Chairman. ?She hurt him,? says the source. ?Hanan is well known in the world; she?s not a nonsense person. So her resignation is taken seriously...