Word: branched
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NASA had carefully tracked the O-ring problem on paper since 1978, some three years before the first shuttle flight, on April 12, 1981. As early as Jan. 19, 1979, John Q. Miller, chief of the solid motor branch at Marshall, where the boosters were developed, complained to his superiors that the seal was functioning "in a way which violates industry and Government O-ring application practices." On May 29, 1980, a NASA engineering panel noted that the O rings had failed in a ground test and called them "inadequate" for reliability and "marginal" in their safety...
...Harvard's guidelines, considered among the most stringent in the nation and a potential model for other schools, Gates said, "A university steps on precarious ground and threatens academic freedom itself by restricting what organizations a scholar may talk to, especially if one of the organizations is a branch of the government...
Appalled at the cost of maintaining such increasingly extravagant monuments to Executive Branch ego (currently running at $14.6 million annually), Congress a fortnight ago passed a bill limiting the size of future presidential libraries. Ronald Reagan promised to sign the measure into law --but only after pressuring the bill's authors to exempt the presidential library he plans to build at Stanford University...
H.E.C. is not turning into an overseas branch of the Harvard Business School, however. The new classes will involve only 30 students of the school's total enrollment of 900. Despite these limitations, H.E.C. expects opposition from the French cultural establishment. Nonetheless, says H.E.C. Professor Benjamin Stora, "to be competitive in international business today is to use a language other than French. In France, you have to be brave to say that...
...even Branch Rickey," Jackson says, "could have foreseen this kid was going to hit 15 home runs in his first 37 games in the big leagues (a 16th in the 38th was washed out last week). But I could see he had the tools." The way Jackson looks at it, the tools are the minimum. "A lot of players have superstar capability," he says, "but how many have superstar copability? Some can pull their weight, but few can pull the wagon." When he says Joyner might be special, Jackson means very special indeed...