Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican National Convention, and Luis Carlos Azenha, a correspondent for Brazil's TV Manchete network, and his crew of two were trolling for stories outside the New Orleans Superdome. They headed for Lafayette Square, where they hoped to get pictures of men kissing each other at a rally protesting the Republicans' stand on AIDS. The square, however, was deserted except for a sprinkling of mounted police and a handful of journalists with the same idea as the Brazilians. No story there...
...psychological stress of combat on the Vincennes' sailors led to the misreadings, Fogarty's investigation concluded. The cruiser had been on Persian Gulf duty only since late May, and its crew got its first taste of battle the morning of July 3. The ship had just skirmished with Iranian gunboats when the Airbus was spotted, and all hands were already on alert because of intelligence warnings of a possible Iranian terrorist attack over the July 4 weekend. According to the Washington Post, agitated crew members even fumbled the complex firing sequence several times before launching the missiles...
Program managers have been grooming Discovery for the first shuttle flight since the loss of Challenger and its crew of seven in an explosion 73 seconds after liftoff on January...
...Other schemes envision three ships hooked together in a cartwheel-like arrangement that makes three revolutions per minute, or two vehicles attached by a half-mile-long tether rotating through space as the entire system speeds toward Mars. Still another idea is to schedule a daily workout for each crew member inside an on-board centrifuge, where resisting the centrifugal force would simulate working in gravity...
...life . . ." He was unable, however, to end his sentence there. Like good people who cause bad things to happen, he felt the need to explain and justify rather than putting a period after his grief: "but under the circumstances . . . I took this action to defend my ship and my crew." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe Jr., used a similar yes-but formulation in saying, "We deeply regret the loss of life here, but that commanding officer had a very heavy obligation to protect his ships, his people...