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These imaginative and important steps, however, will reduce total Third World debt by only a tiny fraction. Bankers may find that if they move too cautiously in easing the debt burden, more sweeping solutions to the problem may be forced upon them...
Unlike many other athletes, Darnyi prefers to race not against the clock but against the competition on a given day. In Seoul he will be pacing himself against California's David Wharton, 19, whose mark of 4:16.12 in the 400-meter medley is just a fraction of a second behind Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball...
...Just a fraction of a second before Discovery's three main engines were to ignite for a critical 20-second test firing last week, a computer detected a problem with a valve that regulates flow in cooling lines; the computer aborted the test. That was the fifth postponement of the engine test in the past two weeks. The latest delay may cause the agency to further set back its launch date, now scheduled for mid-September, by as much as a week. While John ; Talone, who manages work flow on the Discovery, believes a September date is still realistic, some...
...rest of the funding came from theassociates of the Harvard International EnergyProgram, a group of donors which includes Apache,Chevron, Texaco, the DOE and the governments ofVenezuela, Spain and Japan. Except for Apache, allof those donors strongly oppose any oil importfee. But each contributed only a small fraction tothe project and none had specially earmarked thefunds for the study...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida--America's space program suffered another setback yesterday when a computer reported a valve problem and aborted the test-firing of space shuttle Discovery's engines a fraction of a second before ignition...