Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery Toys of Benicia, Calif.: "The committee gives me a source of support, a feeling that it is O.K. to be successful...
...report from Mission Control in Houston was a pilot's nightmare. A blinding dust storm, with winds up to 55 m.p.h., was whipping across the White Sands Missile Range, in southern New Mexico. Even from 150 miles up, Astronauts Jack Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton could see the swirl of white powder. "There will be no landing today for Columbia" said Houston. "The situation has degraded...
Usually NASA's biggest headache is to get spacecraft safely off the ground. But after the White Sands wave-off last week, Houston was confronted with a new sort of crisis: deciding when and where to bring one of its ships down. There was little time to spare. Columbia, already in or bit for a week, had no more than three days of fuel left for generating electricity to run the spacecraft's life-support systems or get it out of orbit...
...lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...
Atlanta 5, Houston...