Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seyyed Hossein Enayat, initially made no suggestions at all; thus the selection process seemed certain to continue into this week. Iranian foot dragging only complicated an already knotty set of problems. For one thing, there is a staggering total of more than 2,000 American claims to process. Another hitch: many U.S. claimants are threatening to challenge the constitutionality of Carter's order barring suits against Iran. Until the Supreme Court rules on that question, the funds that Iran still has in U.S. banks will remain tied up. International efforts to untangle all these snarls, U.S. Negotiator Aldrich predicted...
...Ronald Reagan's economic program came off without a hitch. In Scene 1, two weeks ago, the President's budget proposal sailed through the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. In last week's predictable though impressive Scene 2, the Senate passed the budget 78 to 20-a margin so wide that had not a single Republican voted (and 50 out of 52 voted aye), the Democrats alone would have carried the measure...
...chance for the big bucks comes when a wily Chicago entrepreneur (Humbert Allen Astredo) offers the trio a deal to build a cotton mill if the Hubbards will share the costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...
...these TV views also revealed a possible hitch: a handful of the spacecraft's 30,000 or so silica tiles, essential for insulating Columbia against the flaming, 2,400° F heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, had fallen off. Apparently they were shaken loose during maximum vibrations in the first few moments of the launch, possibly when the solid-fuel rockets were kicked away. The tiles, about a dozen in all, came from the area just above the orbital maneuvering engines on either side of the rudder. Mission controllers quickly pointed out that this was a noncritical...
...Gemini 9 flew off triumphantly two days after its launch was scrubbed -and so did Columbia. Toiling through the night, computer experts in Houston eliminated the hitch by going around it. On Saturday, the experts switched the computers on early, almost a day before the second launch attempt. This time the machines worked in full harmony, and controllers knew they had those electronic gremlins licked. And so, an hour after dawn on Sunday, the signal was given, the engines thundered and, as the grassy meadows and sandy beaches of Florida's coast trembled, Columbia was finally...