Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plunge in oil prices. Only last November crude was selling for more than $30 per bbl., but by last week it had dropped to about $12. Because oil price declines can take 40 to 90 days to work their way through to the pump, the impact of lower-cost crude is just beginning to be felt. Some experts are predicting 60 cents gas for the summer, which may tempt a lot of people to polish up the old T-Bird and have some...
Players in Tier I are often very high NHL draft picks and have usually foregone higher education to play at that level. Tier II junior A is played at a slightly lower level, and involves far fewer drafted players. Many players in Tier II, however, go on to play collegiate hockey in the United States and Canada...
...typical Harvard student carries a load of books home for Christmas and consults his friend Smirnoff about whether he or she ought to be studying. On the other hand, certain lower forms of life masquerading as Harvard students will, in fact, open the books they bring home. Often...
...found behind a primary ring in one booster, indicating that gases had blown past the first ring. Although erosion had also been found after flights in warmer temperatures, 51-C had been exposed to overnight lows in the 20s and had more extensive ring damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures reduced the resiliency and hardness of the rings. At 29 degrees , the anticipated temperature of the O rings the next morning, he feared that getting the rings to seal gaps in the joints might be like "trying to shove a brick into a crack," although it should be like...
...Utah, Lund was joined by Joe Kilminster, vice president for booster programs; Jerald Mason, senior vice president, and Calvin Wiggins, vice president for space projects. A dozen Thiokol engineers in Utah were also participating. Boisjoly presented six charts that had been transmitted to the others and argued that "lower temperature was a factor" in O-ring performance. Lund, the highest engineering officer, said flatly that unless the temperature reached at least 53 degrees , "I don't want...