Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morton-Thiokol manufactured the booster rocket which caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last January, killing seven astronauts, destroying hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware, and crippling--perhaps irreparably--the U.S. space program...
...problem, you may remember, was traced to a rubber O-ring in the right-hand booster. O-rings may sound insignificant, but they're not. One Air Force official compared the space shuttle's dependency on O-rings to an airplane's dependency on wings. NASA rates O-rings as items of "Criticality I," meaning that their failure could result in the destruction of the space shuttle...
Americans react differently to these matters. After the leaky booster rocket made by his company caused Challenger to explode, the chairman of Morton Thiokol was asked if he should have resigned. His name is Charles S. Locke. Here is what Mr. Locke said: "You explain to me why I should...
...Another booster was the team's trip to France in March, LaRaja says: "It was a real confidence-builder. We played well and got to see top-notch teams...
Geller, a 66-year-old bachelor, doesn't have what you might think of as a radio personality. He isn't just taciturn but a misanthrope and the dead opposite of a local booster. He calls Gloucester "the end of the world" and says he would rather have caught on in New York City. In Gloucester, he says, there is nothing to do but work or have sex. "I don't have a sex partner," he adds gloomily, "so I work...