Word: constraints
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...time constraint may have led Obama to sacrifice his famed rhetorical flourishes for cold, hard facts. He told reporters in Illinois earlier this week that he isn't aiming for the polished, soaring language that is his hallmark, but rather a more nuts and bolts dissection of the choice voters face. "This is going to be a more workmanlike speech. I'm not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric, I'm much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives," Obama said. He also did his best to dampen expectations...
...generally been cooperative with the commission, its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which supervised the rocket boosters, and Morton Thiokol, the contractor that manufactures them, were less so. It took an FBI agent working for the commission to discover, while perusing papers at Thiokol, that a ''flight constraint'' had been declared on July 10, 1985, for the booster-joint seal--and then routinely waived for seven successive launches, including Challenger's last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission discovered that the booster-seal problem was not merely a low-level worry; top NASA officials...
...arming a putative republic of his own—manipulating the media and muzzling opposition parties. A man whose heart our own president once professed to “know,” Putin’s political ambition seems to know no inward bounds—or external constraint. Yet the Russian premier’s name hardly appears among the White House’s “axis of evil...
...Caldwell, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise says he expects Harvard to maintain the best Academic Index in Ivy League men’s basketball despite Tommy Amaker’s new recruits. Harvard’s mission is best served by striving for excellence while still satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard’s athletic program will be within one standard deviation of the student body and that all student-athletes will meet a minimum Academic Index standard. Harvard...
...director of Community Builders. “Whether we got it right is another issue.” Christopher Hill, a partner at CBT Architects, defended the heights of the buildings, which range from four to 10 stories in the proposed design. However, Hill did say that the space constraint was a major factor behind the decision to build high. “If we had more land, definitely we would be able to bring the scale down, and we could definitely have more green space,” he said, “but we have to work with...