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...trouble was not unfamiliar. "We have had a history of contaminants clogging the system," admitted a technician at Kennedy. NASA engineers had even included a bypass around the oil filters just in case. Such clogging is usually caused by a leak in liquid hydrazine, the auxiliary power units' fuel. Hydrazine reacts with lubricating oil to form waxy polymers, or gunk. Despite this hazard, prelaunch preparations did not include an oil change; the two jammed systems were running on the same oil used in last April's shuttle mission. Significantly, the oil in the one working system was fresh...
Unfortunately, the club had to bypass the Washington tournament this year due to lack of enthusiasm; only two members, two shy of the requisite twelve, signed up to go. The two weekly pratices, Wednesday and Sunday, usually attract between eight and fifteen, "though occasionally less than that," club co-captain Drew Stone admitted...
Trudeau finally decided to bypass the premiers, asking Britain to add his charter to the B.N.A. Act and then give authority over the document to Canada. The British were willing in principle, providing the Canadian Supreme Court agreed. In its ruling, the court said that Trudeau could ask for the B.N.A. Act. But it also ruled that any prior tinkering with the act would flout unwritten constitutional tradition unless it went hand in hand with "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
Councilor Walter Sullivan had sponsored a motion that would allow the condo owners--who until this summer rented their apartments on Linnean St. and Washington Ave.--to bypass a set of city ordinances designed to prevent the removal of housing from the rental market for conversion to condominiums...
With no time left and his team trailing by 23-6, Naso decided to bypass his Cory-Lovric team and try for a two-point conversion...