Word: latches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard sophomore heavyweight John Amory compared Parker to Bear Bryant, the legendary head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. "He's someone you can latch onto as the symbol of the whole Harvard crew program," Amory said of Parker. "We've had a really successful program and you attach that...
...most important changes are a new material for the O rings (probably a nitrosilicon rubber), which NASA expects to pass tests down to 31 degrees, and a small heater installed at each joint, just in case. Another is a "capture latch," a metal lip containing an added O ring, which would force escaping gas to turn an extra corner and lose momentum. The maximum distance that joints can pull apart under the stress of launch will be reduced from the current one thirty-thousandth of an inch to one-fifth that figure. A "vulcanized, rubbery substance" will replace the putty...
...symbol." John Lo-Schiavo, president of the University of San Francisco, says the problem can get worse in college. "When a kid gets national acclaim and looks like he's going to be a top draft choice and so forth, there's a tendency for the wrong element to latch onto that kid," he explains. "They like to reflect in the glory of the star and ingratiate themselves by saying 'I can get you the stuff...
...long as Central America is unstable, the Nicaraguans will continue to latch on to the Soviet Union. The war the United States is about to fund will destablize that region, thereby increasing the threat to our borders. But even more distressing is the fact that the decision to send money to the contras will also fuel the rhetorical fire of leftists trying to sway the peoples of other Central American nations...
Fourteen year-old Jorge Palmerin, one of Cruz'stutees in the Key Latch program says, "Remy hastaught me many things. He has brought me closertogether with other boys my age. He taught us howimportant school is, how the future would dependon us, and we learned about other places and whatother places...