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...with Observer. But none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that despite elaborate backup systems, space missions have become too complex to be made foolproof. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "NASA should be doing smaller missions, more rapidly and with more limited objectives. Then if you lose one, you haven't lost everything." In fact, such a plan may already be in the works: NASA has reportedly...
...even if the budget is not cut, the intelligence collection is foolproof and the analysis flawless, it can all still go wrong. In the summer of 1990, for example, CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning predicted flatly that Iraq was about to invade Kuwait. George Bush refused to believe it, preferring to accept the personal assurances he had received from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact...
...which currently carry interest rates of roughly 5% to 7%, will be reduced 45%. More money will be raised with securities that mature in three years or less, on which the government has to pay only about 3% to 4%. The strategy makes sense now, but it's not foolproof. If inflation were to accelerate sharply, short-term interest rates could shoot higher than long- term rates. In that case, savings from the new plan could prove to be short term as well...
...going to tell you how its going to be, the UC's going to bring the Dead to me. Here is a concert proposal so sound, so foolproof, that not even the people so skilled in election fraud can louse it up. Never mind that Adam Sandler cost Trinity students only five dollars, even though their school is half the size of ours. Never mind that the U.C. transformed the popular De La Soul into a financial fiasco. Because not even the gang that couldn't vote straight can mess up a Grateful Dead concert...
...thought that the system was pretty foolproof, and I didn't realize that something like this was possible," said first-year student Kevin L. Drumm...