Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as productive for Malkin. Last summer TIME surprised White House officials when we reported that the President, during a closed-door session with top economic advisers, had set an original budget ceiling of $225 billion (TIME, Aug. 10, 1970). Some aides assumed that there had been a leak. Actually, says Malkin, "the figure was worked out on pads of yellow paper with fragmentary information on budget policy pieced together until there could be no other conclusion...
...hardworking buddy. After passing the precious cargo of moon rocks into Endeavour and closing the hatch, Scott said wistfully: "The Falcon is back on its roost and going to sleep." In fact, it came to a thunderous end. After a brief flurry of concern because of a possible hatch leak, the astronauts cut loose the lunar module's ascent stage and sent it crashing back to the moon's surface 59 miles west of Hadley Base. Its impact jiggled all three of the nuclear-powered seismometers on the moon, including the new Apollo 15 instrument. Geophysicist Gary Latham...
Later the astronauts were confronted by the first plumbing crisis in space: Endeavour s drinking-water tank developed a leak. Like any suburban homeowner, Scott whipped out a wrench stowed for just such an emergency, tightened a suspect valve and succeeded in stemming the flow. "We had a small flood up here," he said. "All we have to do now is hang up a few towels...
...announcement just three minutes before it was broadcast. In part, that was due to delays in transmitting and decoding messages. Whatever the explanation, Sato was stricken. To reporters, Sato wondered how "Nixon could do a thing like this." Sato realized that Washington had been cautious for fear of a leak, but for the Japanese Premier that was scant consolation...
...with the fierce conditions of climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably the most advanced antipollution system in the world. Problems remain, but University of Alaska Ecologist Vic Fischer says: "The basic environmental questions have been faced, and engineering can solve them...