Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mission to Planet Earth, " NASA was involved in every step from start to orbit." Obedient to its bureaucratic, cover-your-backside tradition, the agency demanded that the companies building the Observer, led by General Electric and Martin Marietta, submit endless reams of paperwork documenting every last nut and bolt...
Despite 400 hours of training in NASA's space-simulating water tanks and plenty of spacewalking experience, the astronauts realize that the tiniest unforeseen problem could turn their effort into a disaster. A stripped bolt, a slightly misaligned part, a slip on the part of the fix-it crew could disable the telescope completely, leaving NASA and the scientists who depend on the Hubble worse off than before...
...honor Gilbert's satirized British class distinctions, and it is this sitcom-like conflict which drives the play. Ralph professes his love for Josephine; she rejects the suitor her father has chosen and tries to elope with Ralph; Ralph is punished. Then, like a lightning-bolt from the Gods, Buttercup drops the secret that reverses fortunes and neatly resolves the plot...
...dealing has some Republicans who favor NAFTA hinting that they might bolt. Last Friday Representative Tom Ewing of Illinois asked Clinton to forgo a new $5-a-seat tax on overseas air travel to help offset lost tariff revenues. New taxes, said Ewing, could be NAFTA's "death knell...
...transformer bolt was installed in the courtyard outside Hurlbut, to be used by radio station WHRB when it moves into the newly renovated basement of Pennypacker Hall sometime this year...