Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martian Microbe. Though the effort to reduce the likelihood of such failures could delay next October's flight of Apollo 14, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told...
...Yale Thursday night also stressed the importance of keeping the Panther protest non-violent. "Violence will not help the Panthers at all." said Kate Field, a member of the Strike Steering Committee. "Violence will only cause the trial to be moved to the county capital, another year's delay, and the jailing of more people...
...joint suit, the Wilderness Society. Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Defese Fund have managed to delay the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a key ingredient in the efforts of oilmen to claim the profitable resources of Alaska...
Family-perhaps the best of the English groups that has followed Traffic's lead in experimental rock-was in Boston Thursday night with Savoy Brown, but their appearance was limited to one song. Electrical troubles with the group's keyboard and percussion instruments caused an hour and a half delay, and the eventual cancellation of their performance at Northeastern. But in Family's only song. "The Weaver's Answer." there was a brief glimpse of the vitality that characterizes this singular group...
...another happily and apologized to the other passengers for inconveniences. Then they had second thoughts and asked for proof. They wanted to see pictures of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung and a Pyongyang newspaper, both items that are forbidden in sternly anti-Communist South Korea. After a short delay, the skyjackers saw through the ruse. "During that moment," said one stewardess later, "they were very excited and looked very fearful...