Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rogers commission will assign its own reasons, but one former insider offers a credible theory. Contends Jerome Lederer, founder of the private Flight Safety Foundation and a onetime NASA safety director: "There was social pressure: they had thousands of school kids watching for the first school lesson from space. There was media pressure: they feared that if they didn't launch, the press would unfavorably report more delays. And there was commercial pressure: the Ariane (European launcher) was putting objects in space at much lower cost. NASA was also trying to show the Air Force that they could operate...
...President, dwarfed by a giant sepia photograph of OSS Founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan behind the rostrum, paid generous tribute to these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for which "praise and thanks can only come from history and not your contemporaries." But he tried to make up for the slight, saying, "We honor you, we salute you, we thank you for a job well done...
...seconds, it transformed a stereoscopic image transmitted by a pair of television cameras into a detailed, two-dimensional contour map. In three minutes, it laid out the circuitry for a computer chip containing 4,000 transistors. Says Daniel Hillis, the computer's 29-year-old designer and co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.: "The conventional computer is to the Connection Machine what the bicycle is to a supersonic...
...soul of the party. As the man who runs, as he likes to put it, "the greatest state in the greatest nation in the only world we know," Cuomo believes that his mission is to meld old-fashioned compassion with fiscal common sense. In jest, he calls himself the founder of the Progressive Pragmatist Party. He is quick, however, to trumpet what would be its platform: a kind of frugal liberalism, conservatism with a human face. If this self-described progressive pragmatist can act as mediator between the Democratic Party's left wing, including Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition...
...whisked off to Neiman-Marcus for an afternoon's shopping. At the other extreme is the bare-bones Wooden Door in Lake Geneva, Wis. Guests pay as little as $365 for five days and bring their own sheets and towels. "It's not primitive. It's rustic," declares Co-Founder Jill Adzia. "Primitive is sleeping in the woods without any indoor plumbing." California's spas are leaders in changing the image of fat farm to fitness | farm, and three in that state demonstrate the similarities and diversities: The Golden Door, which has been in business for 25 years, specializes...