Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always very strong," Harvard Coach Chris Hafferty said. "I'm surprised that we did so well against them. In the first quarter, we were rusty. But we did not lose our cool and came back...
Step over to your left, and we'll talk to Hughes, the rookie goalie who stayed cool through three hard-fought periods and one heart-stopping overtime...
...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...
...invisible dangers lurk in every aisle of the grocery store. Shoppers have been told that the produce is peppered with pesticides, the boxes and cans packed with treacherous additives, the meat stuffed with powerful drugs, the chickens spattered with bacteria, and the fish steeped in chemical wastes. Even the cool, clear water that comes out of every kitchen tap is suspected of being a witch's brew laced with lead, microorganisms and industrial pollutants. To many people, eating and drinking have become death-defying feats. No wonder sales of "organic" foods and bottled waters have surged to new heights...
...demand. TWA Chairman Carl Icahn confirmed that Eastern's unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment is coming to an agreement with our unions," he said. "I can't imagine how having someone like Icahn get involved will do anything but interfere with the process...