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...Association has given eleven of his 28 appeals-court nominees a barely ''qualified'' rating, the lowest passing grade. ''That's like getting a D,'' says Nancy Broff, a lawyer with the liberal Alliance for / Justice. Only three of Jimmy Carter's 56 appeals-court nominees were rated that low. After watching glumly as the number of Reagan appointees climbed to a third of the 761 federal judgeships, opponents in Congress have started digging in their heels and building support. Two weeks ago, in the first such defeat for the Administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to reject...
...Thiokol, that a ''flight constraint'' had been declared on July 10, 1985, for the booster-joint seal--and then routinely waived for seven successive launches, including Challenger's last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission discovered that the booster-seal problem was not merely a low-level worry; top NASA officials were aware of it, even if they were never told of the recommendation by Thiokol engineers against launching Challenger in cold weather. The report cites a briefing on the booster seals given on Aug. 19, 1985, to the headquarters staff of NASA by concerned shuttle...
...high enough to spy into Soviet territory. Some would even have to be fixed in geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles up. Smart rocks would also have to be launched from space in order to hit a missile during boost. One plan would fire the rockets from ''gun pods'' in low orbit so they could speed to the vicinity of a rising Soviet missile. But Ashton Carter of Harvard, an SDI skeptic, points out that such sensors and gun pods would be vulnerable: ''Hovering a couple of hundred kilometers over enemy territory is a very uncomfortable place to operate.'' In fact...
...Soviets to build more and different types of offenses, thus igniting a destabilizing new round in the arms race. Even if the presidential dream of a perfect defense against Soviet ICBMs could be erected, it would not stop the Soviets from using other offensive weapons, such as bombers and low-flying cruise missiles. Yonas acknowledged that defending against cruise missiles is ''really not part of SDI.'' To stop a bomber or cruise-missile attack would require an extremely costly air- defense system. Even then, an enemy could no doubt find ways to transport a devastating nuclear bomb...
...such white-collar transfers amount to perhaps no more than the equivalent of 15,000 jobs right now. But more and more of this work is beginning to wend its way to the Caribbean, parts of Asia and other literate regions where intellectual skills are for hire at relatively low cost. In Dallas, for example, Pacific Data Services has been subcontracting computer work for clients since 1981 to data centers in the People's Republic of China. PDS boasts that although some of the Chinese workers do not understand English, they copy the information so carefully that the company...