Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they go, both new systems look adequate. Each is designed to get astronauts safely clear of the shuttle's fuselage and wings so they can parachute to earth. In a disaster -- say, the loss of an engine -- the crew will trigger explosives to jettison the escape-hatch cover, then exit one by one. If the rocket system is in place, each astronaut will be yanked from the ship with 2,000 lbs. of thrust. Otherwise, they will hook onto the telescoping pole, which will extend through the door, and let gravity and airflow pull them down and out of harm...
Kinnock denied that Labor would "jettison our commitments" or that the party was "retreating or pandering to yuppies." Instead, he argued that the new tilt was a concession to "social realities." When a worker earns $600 a week, owns his own house, car and a vacation retreat in Spain, the party leader declared, "you do not say, 'Let me take you out of your misery, brother...
...billion dollar high-tech defense contracts SDI will bring them; arms-controllers such as Paul Nitze want a billion dollar bargaining chip; and right-wingers led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle see it as a billion dollar way to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and jettison the SALT agreements, and sabotage arms control. A useless Star Wars, they conclude, should be abandoned sooner rather than later...
...Tower Report also recognizes that every administration has made significant blunders during four or eight years of complicated decision-making. The main failing of the Reagan administration was its inability to admit the mistake, immediately jettison all parties involved and show a clean plate to the American people...
South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung won about 45% of the vote for President in 1971, and ranks as a leading contender in elections to choose a successor to President Chun Doo Hwan, whose term expires in 1988. Last week Kim offered to jettison his longtime dream of occupying Seoul's Blue House, provided that the ruling Democratic Justice Party agreed to permit the direct election of the next President. Said Kim: "If I don't stand for the presidency in 1988, the government has no excuse to oppose direct elections...