Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronauts, the editorial should have posed questions to NASA. It should take something less than the worst disaster in a quarter century of manned spaceflight to point out to us that people do die. We should be asking: Was the shuttle accident due to damaged fuel tanks or broken turbine blades? How can these mechanical faults, if they in fact were the cause, be avoided in future flights? These queries need answers...
Nowadays, according to a Western diplomat, the lack of reality surrounding the governing machinery is even more pronounced. Says he: "It's as if the central nervous system of government has broken down. Orders are issued at the center, but nothing happens in the provinces...
Delays and broken promises have bedeviled the computer business since its birth some 35 years ago. The program that runs the IBM System/360 mainframe computer, for example, arrived six months later than first promised. Frederick Brooks, who managed the project in the mid-'60s, anatomized the problem in a book called The Mythical Man-Month and concluded that it is in the nature of , software to require more time than is scheduled...
...hell of a lot nicer than Briggs Hall, and a hell of a lot closer to campus. Still though, what's not to like about an elevator that buzzes instead of ringing at each floor, a wood-columned common room ruined by gloomy slate-blue paint, or a broken down stairway that hasn't even had the missing poles in the banister replaced...
...looks good on the dashboard of your truck as you pull away from the lot. A mile from your girlfriend's house you stop at a ditch to wash your bloody head. When you look up you see your girl across the water drinking tequila, a broken fishing pole in her hand. "Darlin'!" you cry. "I've come to take can't never leave each other...