Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, some people may be allergic to ingredients in fast foods. Stricter labeling, however, is only a small step to better health. As long as people enjoy the taste of big burgers, French fries and milk shakes -- high fat, high salt, high calories and all -- the fast-food fix will prevail...
...Instead of saying we will fix things that the Rogers commission felt were wrong, we are in the position of saying we are fixing things the Rogers commission found wrong," NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher told reporters yesterday...
While the search for a fix proceeded, Bob Ebeling, manager of the booster- ignition system at Morton Thiokol, wrote a plaintive interoffice memo on Oct. 1, 1985, saying, "HELP! The seal task force is constantly being delayed by every possible means . . . The allegiance to the O-ring investigation task force is very limited to a group of engineers numbering 8-10 . . . We wish we could get action by verbal request, but such is not the case. This is a red flag...
...Mysteriously, an unsigned paper produced by Marshall's problem- assessment system declared that "this problem is considered closed" on Jan. 23, just five days before the Challenger launch. Although others still were watching the O rings, Rogers complained that the Marshall memo further reduced the urgency to find a fix...
...return to the days when Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, now Reagan's director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, ran the shuttle program. When he sensed a problem, he awaited no "criticality" rating; he barged into the office of even the lowliest technician to ask how to fix it. Perhaps unfairly, one commissioner insists that "Abe was replaced by wimps...