Word: maines
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...appointed administrative law judge who will decide the case, presided over the hearing room with a mixture of humor and harsh words. Kathleen McCarthy, an NLRB official from the Boston office, sat in between the battling attorneys at the long hearing table facing the judge's podium where the main players gathered for the week...
...team of five top University officials plotted legal strategy for Harvard's case. Two lawyers from the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, Nelson G. Ross and David M. Mandel, were the University's main counsel. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 arrived on the scene Tuesday, and bounced back and forth from his seat in the audience to give whispered advice to the lawyers...
...presidency. He is widely considered by congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle as a lightweight, a nice guy with a pretty face but with virtually no substantive achievements in his 12 years in Congress. During a dinner for top Republican officials earlier this week, the main topic of conversation was who would be Bush's pick as a running mate. When Quayle's name was mentioned, many in the group could barely conceal their amusement...
Just a fraction of a second before Discovery's three main engines were to ignite for a critical 20-second test firing last week, a computer detected a problem with a valve that regulates flow in cooling lines; the computer aborted the test. That was the fifth postponement of the engine test in the past two weeks. The latest delay may cause the agency to further set back its launch date, now scheduled for mid-September, by as much as a week. While John ; Talone, who manages work flow on the Discovery, believes a September date is still realistic, some...
...failures, several hours were required to unload more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen from Discovery's tanks before technicians could examine problems. NASA engineers are not certain exactly what caused last week's problem. Said Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the shuttle's main-engine project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama: "We don't know whether it was a faulty indication or really a malfunction in the valve." At week's end NASA officials suspected that a sensor had been affected by excessive engine cooling during the countdown. They planned to replace the valve...