Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke and flame appeared near a joint between the bottom two segments of the solid fuel rocket...
...President's rhetoric was hardly new. He used the same "bargaining chip" argument to win funding for the controversial MX missile. Increasingly, however, Congressmen are fixated on the bottom line. Though Reagan spoke of seeking only "modest 3% annual growth," in fact his budget request for 1987 calls for a hike of at least 12% over 1986 spending, from $278.4 billion to $311.6 billion. Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office calculated that the President's defense budget underestimates its true cost by $14.5 billion. Most Congressmen believe that in the end the President will be lucky to hold next year...
...greater safety, several companies have devised methods of sealing the individual capsules to make them tamper resistant. Eli Lilly has developed a tiny belt of gelatin that binds, like a piece of tape, the top and bottom halves and makes it difficult to open a capsule without tearing it. Sterling Drug uses sound waves to create a kind of spot-weld on capsules of its Panadol pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson says that it too studied new methods of sealing capsules but decided that none was completely secure...
...buildings, on display at MOMA, are oversize and dashing, like Mies himself. Designed without particular functions in mind, one without even a hypothetical site, the forms are altogether different from the architecture that preceded them, not merely novel but profoundly new. Neither was to have any obvious top, bottom, entrance or decoration. Mies' visionary high-rise modernism was not just a few years ahead of its time; dreamy, romantic modern buildings like these did not come along until almost a half-century later...
...three governments, leading the last through a grueling and unpopular period of economic austerity. This past October Mario Soares, 61, seemed washed up. His Socialist Party had just been defeated in parliamentary elections. When he announced his candidacy for President, polls showed his popular support at a rock-bottom 8%. Unfazed, Soares persisted...