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...with the Challenger tragedy. The solid rocket booster that is suspected of causing the explosion was made by Chicago-based Morton Thiokol, and no reports of drug use among its employees have surfaced. Nonetheless, any drug abuse among production workers in the space program or the defense industry carries grave risks. Says Frankel: "In this kind of ultra-high-tech work, the guy who makes the little adjustments, the screwer-on of parts, the bolter of nuts, is just as important as the project's chief engineer...
...Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite. To this day, Anglicans themselves remain divided on the sacrifice issue, but acceptance or rejection of the concept has not been considered a grave ecclesiastical question...
...apprehension, hoping Gonzalez could pull off a miracle. From a military standpoint, Spain's withdrawal would matter little, since even now the country is not part of NATO's unified military command structure. But NATO Secretary- General Lord Carrington warned that a referendum defeat would result in a "very grave weakening of the alliance...
...best put into the straw man category: "no Jewish opinion is a good one" (according to Black intellectuals). Is Mr. Barron deliberately attempting to foment further dissension between Black and Jewish intellectuals? Increased tension between these two groups, especially in light of their past political alliance, is of grave concern to me and other academics. However, Mr. Barron's remarks seem calculated to aggravate differences, rather than reconcile them. How else am I to make sense of his nothing that "to loud applause, West simply noted that he [Farrakhan] was anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and decidely anti-intellectual. It is safe...
...they be accused of dereliction of duty by permitting the deficit to go on growing. Said Rudman: "The fallback procedure, I believe, will work--not with the certainty of the original (automatic) provision, but it will work." Said House Democratic Whip Thomas Foley: "Gramm-Rudman may rule from the grave...