Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Design flaw in Challenger's engines forces another launch delay...
...NASA officials gloomily conceded that their $1 billion bird may have to sit in its nest a while longer. The latest delay involves the most serious problem yet encountered with the troubled Challenger: a basic defect in design that requires overhauling all three of the main engines. Unless the flaw can be quickly corrected, the problem could create a horrendous backup of civilian and military satellites waiting to be carried aloft and add millions of dollars to the cost of the shuttle program...
...problem with the SAT standard is that many Black educators feel it is an unfair standard, meaning that a number of Black athletes will be disproportionally affected. The ACE committee that made this proposal included only three Black educators--a fact which several officials believe is a fundamental flaw. "They made one mistake," says Paterno. "They should have had some Black representatives. I think that was an oversight--one which the Black educators have a right to be offended...
...Harvard name. Yet such value has its price, and academically adventurous students deserve their money's worth. The thrall of a name cannot last forever, and without a stronger philosophical commitment to individual academic needs. Harvard could lose its most valuable resource--a creative student body--through the flaw of its own hubris...
Both viral and genetic approaches to cancer research share one flaw--they attack not the cause of cancer but its mechanism. Even proponents of genetic and viral theories concede that something external must trigger malignant cell growth. These researchers accept the existence of cancer-causing substances in the environment as a given, and devote their efforts to reversing the cancer cycle once it has started--not preventing it from starting. Rather than investigating whether cigarettes, saccharin, asbestos or other hazards should in fact be banned--or going further and lobbying to ban them--such researchers seem to feel helpless...