Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solid-fuel booster, the rocket responsible for the disaster. "We have taken every step to understand what failed on the Challenger and to incorporate a design that won't allow that to happen again," said John Thomas, who headed the modification effort at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Formal adoption, which might take months, will hinge on exhaustive tests by both the agency and booster contractor Morton Thiokol...
...nearby Fort Myers found her son Steven Benson, 35, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two of felony murder and five relating to arson and unlawful explosives. Judge Hugh D. Hayes Jr. said he intended to heed the jury's recommendation for life in prison when formal sentencing occurs next month...
...group left San Francisco June 7 and rode between 40 and 120 miles a day for nine and a half weeks. Every night, they stopped in a small town and were housed and fed by local community or church groups. In each town the students made formal presentations about Oxfam and Save the Children projects, and "just talked to people," said Kevin Peterson, a student at Berkeley...
...manner; one felt affronted by its "vulgarity" and by the schematic thinness and neatness of the paint, so heartless looking when compared with the thick, spontaneous and (it was assumed) emotionally stronger surface of late abstract expressionism. None of that seems a problem anymore. Rosenquist's ingenuities $ as a formal artist have floated to the top. And the subject is clearer: the vicissitudes of a certain kind of American dream...
...think there was any glitz there," saysWalker. "It was a formal, serious ceremony." Forany ceremony, says Walker, "the key issensitivity." He adds, "It is important to beflexible enough to fit the occasion...