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...apart and orbiting through space at 17,500 m.p.h., Gibson and shuttle pilot Charles Precourt began the delicate and risky maneuvers aimed at linking the two great ships. One careless burst of a thruster jet, and Mir's feathery solar panels could be destroyed; too forceful a bump from Atlantis, and either or both craft could be severely damaged. And if Gibson and Precourt couldn't align their 100-ton spacecraft to within 3 in. and 2 [degrees] of its assigned position before the final docking, the whole mission would have to be aborted...
...danger was that the two behemoths would bump with too much force...
Harvard students will bump, grind and swing at spring formals sponsored by the 12 undergraduate houses over the next few weeks...
...pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay out of the way ("Oh my God I'm such a spaz!" she cries). The reduced view captures the sexual potential underlying the situation as, inevitably, their legs bump or touch in passing. The owners of said legs either do not notice (Evie) or do not acknowledge (Randy) this sexual tension...
...what it was like for Ronald Reagan in 1980, when Bob Dole was so far back in the pack that he barely rated mention. This is what it was like for George Bush in 1988, when Dole's disaster-prone campaign amounted to little more than a speed bump on Bush's path to the White House...