Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what the Defense Department's Clementine space probe showed as waves of frozen water is instead merely the rough surfaces of impact craters. If true, the news could mean a setback for space explorers hoping to use the ice to produce hydrogen and oxygen, the main components of rocket fuel. The team said its findings are more accurate than Clementine's, since the Arecibo Observatory has better resolution than the probe. But the existence of ice on the moon cannot be entirely ruled out, the team acknowledged, until scientists study the lunar surface up close...
...tells of one instance during a war games exercise when her future husband took over for another controller who had lost his nerve, inheriting eight jets low on fuel and still in the air. Knowles managed to save all eight pilots and all but one fighter plane...
Still, Grobmyer visited the White House nearly 200 times during Clinton's first term, often seeking help on business interests. In January 1996 he began pressing the National Security Council to meet with Murphy and Copson, principals of the Washington-based firm, U.S. Fuel & Security Group, that inspired the cradle-to-grave nuclear-fuel idea. Repeatedly rebuffed, Grobmyer kept appealing to the next higher level, prompting complaints that he was reducing complex issues to a political campaign. He declined to be interviewed on the specifics of the case. Clinton finally wrote to Grobmyer on Sept. 23, saying his project...
...other key testimony, Eldon Elliott, the owner of Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kans., pointed out McVeigh as the man who rented the Ryder truck from him. Dealers in fertilizer, racing fuel and other possible ingredients in the bomb testified that McVeigh had approached them trying to buy these products in very large quantities. Finally, Eric McGown, who worked at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, the place McVeigh stayed in the days before the bombing, testified that he had seen McVeigh in a Ryder truck in the motel's parking...
...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...