Word: combats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Discovery mission to retrieve two wayward satellites. He has not lost a sense of wonder about the shuttle: "It's kind of mystical being out there on the launchpad listening to the sounds. It seems like a breathing, alive machine." A graduate of Tufts University and a Navy combat pilot in Southeast Asia, Hauck planned to take Beatles and Billy Joel tapes on Discovery. He and his wife Dolly have two adult children, Whitney and Stephen. Hauck, a water skier and car buff, enjoys tinkering with his 1958 Corvette. He is encouraged by NASA's overhaul since the Challenger debacle...
...that rocket." Covey's sentiment amply reflects his gung-ho attitude about NASA's return to space. Covey rose to the rank of colonel after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1968 and studying aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University. He flew 339 combat missions in Viet Nam, then became an Air Force weapons-system test pilot. He piloted the 1985 Discovery shuttle flight that deployed three communications satellites and repaired a fourth. The Coveys -- Dick, wife Kathleen and daughters Sarah, 14, and Amy, 12 -- often socialize with the Haucks outside work and enjoy a close relationship. Covey...
...This committee was the direct ancestor of the MCAD," writes Leon H. Mayhew in his 1968 study of the commission. "Its function was to carry out investigations and to sponsor and assist educational programs designed to combat discrimination...
...heard for years how successful we have been in combatting racial discrimination. We praise ourselves for having eliminated blatant discrimination--the name-calling, the assaults, and the Jim Crow laws. Our struggle, we tell ourselves, is to fight the subtle discrimination--the quiet, harmful fears we have of our differences. By not doing enough to combat it, however, we have allowed the blatant, violent bigotry to re-emerge...
...plan is well-intentioned, and is an innovative effort to combat the dearth of minority faculty here. But it is quite likely that the program would do more harm than good...