Word: krafts
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Some of NASA's old hands now think the lofty space shuttle program should become more "customer-oriented" -- even privatized -- so that the space agency can cut costs and go back to R&D. In a new study obtained by Reuters, a task force led by Christopher Kraft, a key figure in the Apollo moon program, says future shuttles should haul space cargo commercially, and advises NASA to cut back on an expensive "safety shield" for astronauts developed after the 1986 Challenger explosion. "Safety is one of those terms that can be used to hide behind and prevent necessary change...
...last, a holiday cheer to Bob Kraft. If it weren't for him, it would be the Anheuiser-Bush St. Louis Patriots travelling to Buffalo this sunday. Thanks for saving the sports year, Bobby. And here's to many more years in Boston...
...carefully manicured, geranium-laced lawn of John and Marie Kraft's brick bungalow on Chicago's Northwest Side bespeaks a sense of neighborhood pride. But as the other residents of this quiet street know, the Krafts' vigorous domesticity has an ugly side -- one that is about to cost them the property they have tended so lovingly...
...Ramoses' long siege began soon after they arrived in 1985. Kathleen Kraft, now 37, reportedly told them, "We think that you and your family should move out." That was the nicest thing the Ramos family says it ever heard from the Krafts, who are all unemployed except for Marie, 65, who assembles door parts in a factory. Isidor Ramos, 40, a black 19-year veteran of the Chicago police department, says the Krafts called him a "nigger" and his wife, a Puerto Rican, a "spic." Daughter Mindy, 20, has been called a "spic whore"; Ivan, 12, a "little nigger...
Three years ago, John Kraft Sr., now 70, reportedly told Isidor that if he "were not a Chicago police officer, your home would be burned." George Willard, the Krafts' son-in-law, who also lives in the house, allegedly approached Minerva Ramos two years ago with a tire iron in hand and told her, "I can't wait to grab you somewhere and beat the hell out of you." Last May Kathleen was found guilty of criminal trespass after banging on the Ramoses' garage door, apparently in an effort to set off their burglar alarm. In October, after the Ramoses...