Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffered three consecutive launch disasters, not counting the failure of a small Nike-Orion rocket on April 25, disclosed by the Associated Press last week. That adds up to the worst string of failures since the early days of the space program. Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee saw more than bad luck at work. Said he: "There may be a quality-control problem at NASA." Gore revealed that the space agency had slashed 70% of the personnel assigned to monitor the quality of its work between 1970 and 1985. Still, the Titan failure, as well as a Titan explosion...
...worker at the Kerr-McGee Corp. uranium-processing plant in Gore, Okla., died from exposure to a caustic chemical that formed when an improperly heated, overfilled container of nuclear material burst. Some radiation flowed out of the plant, sending more than 100 people to local hospitals...
...well as much of the West. With the Democratic Party groping through an identity crisis in the wake of two landslide losses to Ronald Reagan, Southern Democrats see an opening to reshape the party in an image more to their liking. "It's a risk," says Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, "but when you lose 49 states, it's time to take some risks...
...showboating, as it has on occasion in the House, where the cameras often go on rolling at the end of each day's business so that members can deliver special one-minute speeches for home consumption. But the main effect of television in the House, says Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, a former Congressman, has been to make legislators more careful about their performances and floor speeches. The Senate, moreover, did not exactly throw itself open to video verite: the new rules preclude camera panning of the chamber to show empty seats or drowsing Senators...
...launch by Thiokol engineers or the discovery of the booster's cold spots. Asked by the Senate subcommittee what he would have done if he had known about the cold spots, Moore replied, "I would have asked more questions about what the readings indicated." Said Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore Jr.: "The record calls into question the way alarm bells are rung and heard" at NASA...