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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 1985 NASA Budget Analyst Richard Cook had warned in an internal memo that unless the O rings were improved, a "catastrophic" failure might follow. Three weeks ago, he revealed that during every shuttle launch, some engineers had "held their breath" in fear of an O-ring failure. Last week Engineer Roger Boisjoly, Thiokol's top expert on the rings, testified that he had sent a similar memo to his superiors only days after Cook sent his. On any one flight, his memo warned, it was "a jump ball" as to whether the seal would hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Deficiency | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...When Andre was ten, I was ill for three weeks. He did all of the cooking for his father, his brother and himself. Even pastries. I had never noticed that he was in the kitchen often, or that he watched or asked me questions and I never tried to teach him. But suddenly, he simply began to cook . . . Il est encore mon petit garcon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: America's Best French Restaurant | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...weekend dog too," he says. "He is a Labrador retriever and belongs to an American family all week, but on Sunday he comes to see me. If I am not there, he comes to the ski area and runs up the mountain to find me. That's because I cook French soup for him. Sammy knows good French cooking when he tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: America's Best French Restaurant | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...Hill reporter from 1981 to 1983, Thomas covered the burgeoning growth of political-action committees and their effect on campaign fund raising and other activities for a TIME cover story that ran in 1982. Thomas returned to Washington recently and, with Beckwith as his guide, made a kind of Cook's tour of the new influence peddlers, visiting the offices of top Washington lobbyists like Tommy Boggs, the son of Louisiana Congresswoman Lindy Boggs; Anne Wexler, former aide to President Jimmy Carter; and ex-White House Majordomo Michael Deaver. The experience, says Thomas, provided him with an updated view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Mar. 3, 1986 | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...young people wait longer to get married, more and more Americans are living and eating alone. Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than the four minutes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appliances: Fast Food for Singles | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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