Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Executive Marshall Smith, 56, is convinced that his new, technologically impressive Amiga computer will become a winner and that the banks will give the company enough time to make a turnaround. Wall Street speculates that Commodore may be working on a deal to raise cash through a merger or joint venture with another firm...
...that moment, Harris, the maintenance director, was figuring out how he could get by without a $900 expansion joint by jury-rigging a small loop in a pipe...
...fiscal year), Congress by Aug. 15 would still have to calculate equal percentage cuts in the 50% or so of all federal spending that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied in a joint resolution brought up for a straight yes-or-no vote within one week. Congress could reject the resolution, or the President could veto it, but they would still be under pressure to cut spending lest they be accused of dereliction of duty by permitting the deficit to go on growing...
...charged with investigating the explosion of space shuttle Challenger were upstaged last week by a steady stream of disclosures. First, the New York Times revealed that NASA internal documents had long ago warned about problems with the crucial O rings, the two giant synthetic-rubber washers that seal each joint between the booster-rocket segments. Next, an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology spelled out in extraordinary detail how the starboard booster had caused Challenger's external liquid-fuel tank to explode. Then, NASA released pictures showing a mysterious puff of black smoke apparently emerging from the booster at lift...
Nearly everyone, including the space agency, seemed to be zeroing in on a failure of the right booster rocket, probably at its bottom joint, as the event that initiated the tragedy. The puff of black smoke seen in the NASA photographs and videotape lends support to theories that an O ring was at fault. According to a flight "time-line" compiled by NASA and released at week's end the smoke first appeared .445 seconds after booster ignition. It swirled between the rocket and the external tank, near where the fatal burnthrough seems to have occurred. One solid-rocket specialist...