Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aware of the machines' fickle past, the controllers promptly shut down the No. 3 computer on Columbia in order to keep it as a fail-safe reserve and relegated No. 4 to managing the vehicle's environmental systems. The fifth computer was on standby. Later, when he was safely on the ground, Young confessed: "When the first one went, my knees shook. When the second went, I turned to jelly." Eventually, Mission Control was able to command No. 2 back into action, although its performance was erratic. No. 1 remained dead for the rest of the flight...
...wrote in regard to the antismoking referendum, "Enforcement will be annoying and probably impossible." A majority of San Franciscans obviously disagree. They voted for the law. Furthermore, your article states that Proposition P "narrowly passed." But you fail to mention that the tobacco industry spent $1.5 million, or $20 per vote, trying to defeat the legislation. Considering the effect of such lobbying, the bill could hardly pass with a landslide victory...
This year a Nieman fellow at Harvard, the Newsday reporter adds that "a disturbing number of athletes fail to prepare for careers away from the field," concluding that "salaries aside, professional Black athletes with incomplete educations suffer the same problems as Blacks in America...
...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...
Because our access to a character's mind is limited to summations and tag lines like the above, we are nudged into hearing now often the people in these stories banter dispiritedly and fail to connect--we must listen to what they say, and how they say it. Much of the dialogue is brilliantly mundane: it has the sour sound of conversations that occur in the kitchen over a half-eaten meal...