Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weinberger has one all-important fan: his longtime friend Reagan. The President supported him on the military budget and shares his hard-line anti-Soviet views. Except in the President's eyes, however, his performance has earned him no more than a disappointing B-minus...
...plodding, lacking spark and less than innovative in law enforcement. Yet his frequent get-tough-on-crime speeches have been hampered by the Administration's unwillingness to back his proposals with funds. In the view of White House watchers, he rates a solid but lackluster B-minus for what has been a solid but lackluster performance...
...minus-nine minutes, a slight drop in liquid-oxygen pressure was detected in the huge 526,000-gal. external fuel tank and in one of three oxygen tanks carried aboard the orbiter. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson at Mission Control in Houston stopped the countdown and consulted other technicians. The problem did not seem serious. Pressure in the tanks could be adjusted by warming the oxygen with on-board heaters. Ground computers guiding the launch were instructed to ignore the pressure drop, and the countdown continued...
...loss of pressure was recorded in a second on-board tank. Again, the computers were told to proceed. But when the third tank registered the same problem, only 40 seconds remained before lift off. Before the computers could be redirected, they had shut down the launch at T-minus-31 seconds...
...second half promised more of the same, until Harvard got the ball midway through the third quarter on its own 18. Two penalties and a screen pass for minus seven yards later, the Crimson were on their own one. When Golitz met the right side of the B.U. line in the endzone on the next play, the safety gave the Terriers all the points they needed...