Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA needed the triumph. To the dismay of space officials, the maiden launch of Discovery had been postponed three times. The original takeoff date of June 25 was put off when a back-up computer refused to answer a command. The next day a fuel valve faltered 4 sec. before blastoff, again delaying the mission. Then, on Aug. 28, the day before the third scheduled launch, a NASA engineer discovered that the computer charged with the last-minute double-checking of equipment might miss some critical signals. Blast-off was deferred for 24 hrs., as computer programmers scrambled to write...
...last question that complicates the matter. The GSAS administration in Byerly Hall has expanded dramatically since the Wolff Committee report--to the dismay of some departments--and the issue of who actually runs the GSAS gets mixed up with the broader policy issues...
...student, Michael O. Minor '87, expressed characteristic dismay. "Sage's prices are way too high, they're a rip-off. I'm very upset about this, he said...
...annoyance and the dismay of the Mondale camp, the tax returns issue popped up nearly everywhere she campaigned and completely dominated her sessions with the press. At one news conference, 18 out of 20 questions concerned her family finances. On at least two occasions she became visibly rattled, her hands trembling out of anger or frustration...
...Hatfield, the courtly, square-jawed Oregon Republican, has earned in his 18 years on Capitol Hill. A deeply religious Baptist, Hatfield, 62, was one of the first Senators to oppose the Viet Nam War and was in the forefront of the nuclear-freeze movement. But last week, to the dismay of friends and colleagues, Hatfield found himself under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. The issue: whether four payments totaling $40,000 to Hatfield's wife constituted a bribe to win the Senator's backing for an oil pipeline across Central Africa. And if they...