Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take many calculated risks. In May, for example, agency officials had to make a decision about a potential danger if a flight had to be aborted shortly after lift-off. What would happen, asked NASA analysts, if one or more of the valves that allow the liquid fuels to flow from the external tank into the orbiter's main engines failed to shut after the tank was jettisoned? The thrust from leaking fuel, they feared, could cause the orbiter and tank to collide. Since the shuttle's computer is not programmed to identify which valves have failed, the astronauts would...
...small fee for granting SBA-guaranteed loans of up to $50,000. While the plan, which must still pass the full House and Senate, would be open to all small businesses, it would be especially helpful to service companies. Reason: in some cases, creditworthiness could be based on cash flow rather than assets...
When the Ill Wind cases come to court, some of the defense contractors may contend they had no idea that the middleman may have acquired his helpful knowledge illegally. This is something, in all probability, that the contractor does not want to know. "There is an enormous flow of information between the Pentagon and the contractors," explains Aspin. "The dividing line is when bribes are given or taken. This is just plain illegal...
Tradition is honored, of course. There are first-rate aerialists, teeterboard balancers, trick bicyclists and lots of clowns. But what the gifted Canadians are presenting is less a conventional succession of circus acts -- there are, for example, no animals -- than a wondrous flow of fantasies, produced with all the drive and coherence of a Broadway musical...
...then navy blew the whistle on Harvard's comeback train. Donnelly (18 saves) and his defensive mates got stingy. Basile and his offensive buddies decided to get back into the flow of the game...