Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon is worried about the delay in lofting experiments for SDI research. It also frets about its diminished ability to keep a clear space eye on the Soviets and Middle East hot spots with its KH (keyhole) and Big Bird spy satellites. The Air Force has sent seven KH craft into polar orbits over the past nine years, but only one is still operational. The satellites are normally used in pairs, and a replacement for the last one to go dead was lost in last August's Titan rocket explosion. The single eye is expected to function for at least...
...problem that could be aggravated by low temperatures. Yet George Hardy, Marshall's deputy director of science and engineering, declared that he was "appalled" by Thiokol's reasoning that the cape's cold weather, predicted to be in the 30s at lift-off, should lead to a delay. In the now notorious teleconference, four Thiokol vice presidents at first concurred with the fears of their engineers. But when they heard the NASA objections, they decided to take a "management" vote in which the engineers seated beside them had no voice. Even though Thiokol had taken the seal problem seriously enough...
...miners were on strike, and Carrington played a key role in convincing Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to call pivotal new elections. Heath called them a few weeks after Carrington wanted them, and lost. While people disagree as to the significance of the timing and while many believe the delay made Carrington blameless, it nevertheless cost him some of the deep and near-universal respect he has earned from fellow politicians and the general public at other times...
...Prime Minister's scheme appeared to have collapsed early in May, when House Speaker Michita Sakata attached a rider to a court-ordered reapportionment bill requiring a waiting period that effectively postponed lower-house elections for 30 days. The delay prevented Nakasone from dissolving the lower house in time to call new parliamentary elections...
...were punished for failing to distribute wages and clothing after the accident and for otherwise ignoring the needs of evacuees. One offender was expelled from the party and a second was reprimanded. Western experts called the moves part of a concerted effort to blame local authorities for Moscow's delay in responding to the disaster--the first evacuations were not ordered until 36 hours after the accident--and its failure for three days to announce that a serious nuclear mishap had occurred...