Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship roared higher and higher into the cloudless Florida sky, the words of Lisa Malone, the new voice of Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
Dearing remarked that his team won the game because, "[We were] probably better with ball-control. I think we blocked a little better...
...This is probably [Hartje's] best year with us," Cleary said. "His skating is strong, his puck control is good and he's made some big plays. Tod really adds some offensive punch to [the green line...
Nikandrov also said that control of curriculum should be less centralized. "At this point 70 percent of the curriculum comes from Moscow," he added. He stated a modest goal of giving local councils 40 percent control...
...famous person," commands little respect around the Capitol. However, the choice makes sense in the context of an emerging trend within the GOP. Republicans have abandoned the legislative process and shunned decent ethical standards; they have recently turned to destructive partisan confrontations in order to regain control of the Congress...